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Birthday September 7, 1901

• The temperature on September 7, 1901 was between 7.1 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (15%). 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.
  • January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
  • January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
  • February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
  • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
  • September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
  • November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Jacques Vaché, French author and poet († 1919)
• 1900 » Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak († 1933)
• 1900 » Taylor Caldwell, English-American author († 1985)
• 1903 » Dorothy Marie Donnelly, American poet and author († 1994)
• 1903 » Margaret Landon, American missionary and author († 1993)
• 1904 » C. B. Colby, American author († 1977)