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Birthday December 26, 1902

• The temperature on December 26, 1902 was between 4.1 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. 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.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • 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

• 1900 » Evelyn Bark, leading member of the British Red Cross, first female recipient of the CMG († 1993)
• 1901 » Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author († 1941)
• 1902 » Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter and sculptor († 1980)
• 1903 » Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor († 1995)
• 1904 » Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author († 1980)
• 1905 » William Loeb III, American publisher († 1981)