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Birthday January 8, 1901

• The temperature on January 8, 1901 was between -9.4 °C and -0.6 °C and averaged -4.9 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (24%). 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.
  • April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
  • May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
  • August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
  • September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
  • September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
  • October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka († 1959)
• 1900 » Dorothy Adams, American character actress († 1988)
• 1900 » Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist († 1982)
• 1902 » Carl Rogers, American psychologist and academic († 1987)
• 1902 » Georgy Malenkov, Russian engineer and politician († 1988)
• 1904 » Karl Brandt, German physician and SS officer († 1948)