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Birthday February 1, 1902

• The temperature on February 1, 1902 was between -4.1 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -1.6 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (63%). 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 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
  • 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.
  • April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
  • July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Clark Gable, American actor († 1960)
• 1901 » Frank Buckles, American soldier († 2011)
• 1902 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright († 1967)
• 1902 » Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard († 1947)
• 1904 » S.J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1905 » Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)