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Birthday March 28, 1901

• The temperature on March 28, 1901 was between -5.2 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (27%). 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 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
  • March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
  • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
  • September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
  • December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

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• 1899 » Buck Shaw, American football player and coach († 1977)
• 1899 » Gussie Busch, American businessman († 1989)
• 1899 » Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints († 1973)
• 1900 » Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator († 2004)
• 1902 » Flora Robson, English actress († 1984)
• 1902 » Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech fiddler and composer († 1988)