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Birthday February 10, 1902

• The temperature on February 10, 1902 was between -3.1 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (35%). 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
  • March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
  • June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
  • August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
  • November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Stella Adler, American actress and educator († 1992)
• 1902 » Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1903 » Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager († 1939)
• 1903 » Waldemar Hoven, German physician († 1948)
• 1904 » John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1963)
• 1905 » Walter A. Brown, American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics († 1964)