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Birthday December 28, 1902

• The temperature on December 28, 1902 was between 4.8 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (12%). 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.
  • January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
  • April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • 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.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

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• 1898 » Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish-American meteorologist and academic († 1957)
• 1898 » Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral († 1947)
• 1902 » Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author († 2001)
• 1902 » Shen Congwen, Chinese author and educator († 1988)
• 1903 » Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader († 1983)
• 1903 » John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist († 1957)