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Birthday April 1, 1902

• The temperature on April 1, 1902 was between 5.9 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °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 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  • January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • 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.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » William James Sidis, Ukrainian-Russian Jewish American mathematician, anthropologist, and historian († 1944)
• 1899 » Gustavs Celmiņš, Latvian academic and politician († 1968)
• 1900 » Stefanie Clausen, Danish Olympic diver († 1981)
• 1901 » Whittaker Chambers, American journalist and spy († 1961)
• 1905 » Gaston Eyskens, Belgian economist and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium († 1988)
• 1905 » Paul Hasluck, Australian historian, poet, and politician, 17th Governor-General of Australia († 1993)