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Birthday August 8, 1902

• The temperature on August 8, 1902 was between 11.7 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 2.4 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 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 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  • April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
  • May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
  • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)
• 1907 » Benny Carter, American saxophonist, trumpet player, and composer († 2003)