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Birthday October 11, 1902

• The temperature on October 11, 1902 was between 8.7 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (26%). 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.
  • April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
  • April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
  • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
  • December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and theorist († 1982)
• 1897 » Nathan Farragut Twining, American general († 1982)
• 1899 » Eddie Dyer, American baseball player and manager († 1964)
• 1901 » Masanobu Tsuji, Japanese colonel and politician († 1961)
• 1902 » Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian activist and politician († 1979)
• 1905 » Fred Trump, American real estate entrepreneur († 1999)