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Birthday September 7, 1902

• The temperature on September 7, 1902 was between 5.8 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (42%). 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 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
  • April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
  • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak († 1933)
• 1900 » Taylor Caldwell, English-American author († 1985)
• 1903 » Dorothy Marie Donnelly, American poet and author († 1994)
• 1903 » Margaret Landon, American missionary and author († 1993)
• 1904 » C. B. Colby, American author († 1977)
• 1907 » Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Turkish composer and musicologist († 1991)