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Birthday April 30, 1902

• The temperature on April 30, 1902 was between 3.3 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). 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 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  • January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
  • July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1901 » Simon Kuznets, Belarusian-American economist, statistician, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1902 » Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1905 » Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic († 2012)