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Birthday December 21, 1902

• The temperature on December 21, 1902 was between 4.3 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. 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.
  • March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
  • April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
  • November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
  • December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II († 1968)
• 1900 » Luis Arturo González López, Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president († 1965)
• 1905 » Anthony Powell, English author († 2000)
• 1905 » Käte Fenchel, German mathematician († 1983)
• 1909 » Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese journalist and author († 1992)
• 1911 » Josh Gibson, American baseball player († 1947)