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Birthday December 28, 1901

• The temperature on December 28, 1901 was between -0.5 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (18%). 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.
  • February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
  • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
  • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
  • September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
  • October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)