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Birthday October 16, 1902

• The temperature on October 16, 1902 was between 6.6 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (21%). 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 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator († 1979)
• 1900 » Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager († 1971)
• 1900 » Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet († 1988)
• 1903 » Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1982)
• 1903 » Cecile de Brunhoff, French author and pianist († 2003)
• 1904 » Björn Berglund, Swedish actor († 1968)