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Birthday July 4, 1902

• The temperature on July 4, 1902 was between 7.9 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (36%). 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.
  • 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.
  • June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
  • July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
  • December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Belinda Dann, Indigenous Australian who was one of the Stolen Generation, reunited with family aged 107 († 2007)
• 1900 » Nellie Mae Rowe, American folk artist († 1982)
• 1902 » George Murphy, American actor and politician († 1992)
• 1902 » Meyer Lansky, American gangster († 1983)
• 1903 » Flor Peeters, Belgian organist, composer, and educator († 1986)
• 1904 » Angela Baddeley, English actress († 1976)