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Birthday June 18, 1901

• The temperature on June 18, 1901 was between 4.0 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (19%). 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.
  • March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
  • May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
  • August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
  • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
  • 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.
  • December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Vlasta Vraz, Czech-American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser († 1989)
• 1901 » Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia († 1918)
• 1901 » Llewellyn Rees, English actor († 1994)
• 1902 » Louis Alter, American musician († 1980)
• 1902 » Paavo Yrjölä, Finnish decathlete († 1980)
• 1903 » Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer († 1965)