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Birthday January 13, 1901

• The temperature on January 13, 1901 was between -8.2 °C and -1.8 °C and averaged -4.5 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). 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.
  • February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
  • June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
  • August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
  • August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
  • October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Gertrude Mary Cox, American mathematician († 1978)
• 1900 » Shimizugawa Motokichi, Japanese sumo wrestler († 1967)
• 1901 » A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist, screenwriter, historian († 1991)
• 1901 » Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish priest and historian († 1978)
• 1902 » Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle († 1985)
• 1904 » Richard Addinsell, English composer († 1977)