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Birthday September 5, 1902

• The temperature on September 5, 1902 was between 12.0 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). 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 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  • January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
  • 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.
  • May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Humphrey Cobb, American author and screenwriter († 1944)
• 1901 » Florence Eldridge, American actress († 1988)
• 1901 » Mario Scelba, Italian politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Italy († 1991)
• 1902 » Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1902 » Jean Dalrymple, American playwright, producer, manager, and publicist († 1998)
• 1904 » Vera Bradford, Australian pianist and educator († 2004)