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Birthday August 8, 1901

• The temperature on August 8, 1901 was between 15.9 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (24%). 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 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
  • January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
  • May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
  • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
  • September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic († 1953)
• 1898 » Marguerite Bise, French chef († 1965)
• 1901 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1902 » Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1904 » Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver († 1948)
• 1905 » André Jolivet, French composer († 1974)