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Birthday June 3, 1901

• The temperature on June 3, 1901 was between 11.1 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (16%). 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 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
  • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
  • August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
  • August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
  • September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
  • September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1900 » Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic († 1932)
• 1900 » Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic († 1997)
• 1901 » Maurice Evans, English actor († 1989)
• 1901 » Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord († 2001)
• 1903 » Eddie Acuff, American actor († 1956)