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Birthday September 9, 1901

• The temperature on September 9, 1901 was between 15.1 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 0.2 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 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.
  • March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
  • September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
  • September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
  • November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
  • December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Bruno E. Jacob, American academic, founded the National Forensic League († 1979)
• 1899 » Neil Hamilton, American stage, film and television actor († 1984)
• 1899 » Waite Hoyt, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1984)
• 1900 » James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1903 » Edward Upward, English author († 2009)
• 1903 » Lev Shankovsky, Ukrainian military historian († 1995)