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Birthday June 16, 1902

• The temperature on June 16, 1902 was between 6.8 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (23%). 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 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
  • 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.
  • June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
  • August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1899 » Helen Traubel, American operatic soprano († 1972)
• 1902 » Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
• 1902 » George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist and author († 1984)
• 1906 » Alan Fairfax, Australian cricketer († 1955)
• 1907 » Jack Albertson, American actor († 1981)