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Birthday June 3, 1901

• The temperature on June 3, 1901 was between 10.7 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (16%). 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.
  • March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
  • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
  • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
  • October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1900 » Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic († 1932)
• 1900 » Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic († 1997)
• 1901 » Maurice Evans, English actor († 1989)
• 1901 » Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord († 2001)
• 1903 » Eddie Acuff, American actor († 1956)