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Birthday March 7, 1902

• The temperature on March 7, 1902 was between 1.9 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 5.0 °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.
  • 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.
  • July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
  • November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist († 1988)
• 1902 » Heinz Rühmann, German actor († 1994)
• 1903 » Maud Lewis, Canadian folk artist († 1970)
• 1904 » Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater († 1969)
• 1904 » Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer († 1942)
• 1908 » Anna Magnani, Italian actress († 1973)