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Birthday September 12, 1901

• The temperature on September 12, 1901 was between 10.6 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (56%). 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 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
  • January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
  • September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
  • November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
  • November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Alma Moodie, Australian violinist and educator († 1943)
• 1898 » Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer († 1963)
• 1900 » Haskell Curry, American mathematician, logician, and academic († 1982)
• 1901 » Shmuel Horowitz, Israeli agronomist and academic († 1999)
• 1902 » Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil († 1976)
• 1902 » Marya Zaturenska, Ukrainian-American poet and author († 1982)