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Birthday March 16, 1902

• The temperature on March 16, 1902 was between 0.8 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). 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.
  • April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
  • April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • 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.
  • June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Cyril Hume, American novelist († 1966)
• 1900 » Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin († 1964)
• 1901 » Alexis Chantraine, Belgian footballer († 1987)
• 1903 » Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan († 2001)
• 1906 » Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist, author, and translator († 2009)
• 1906 » Maurice Turnbull, Welsh-English cricketer and rugby player († 1944)