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Birthday December 5, 1902

• The temperature on December 5, 1902 was between -11.2 °C and -4.7 °C and averaged -8.6 °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.
  • January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
  • March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
  • 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.
  • May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
  • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist and author († 1980)
• 1901 » Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company († 1966)
• 1901 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1902 » Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1988)
• 1902 » Strom Thurmond, American educator, general, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina († 2003)
• 1903 » Johannes Heesters, Dutch-German actor and singer († 2011)