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Birthday January 22, 1901

• The temperature on January 22, 1901 was between 6.8 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
  • January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
  • June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
  • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
  • September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Ross Barnett, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of Mississippi († 1987)
• 1898 » Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1899 » Martti Haavio, Finnish poet and mythologist († 1973)
• 1900 » Ernst Busch, German actor and singer († 1980)
• 1902 » Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler, coach, and academic († 1970)
• 1903 » Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic († 1966)