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Birthday August 31, 1901

• The temperature on August 31, 1901 was between 12.8 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 15.1 °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 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.
  • January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
  • January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
  • February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
  • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
  • August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
  • December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

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• 1897 » Fredric March, American lieutenant, actor, and singer († 1975)
• 1900 » Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist, attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini († 1943)
• 1902 » Géza Révész, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1977)
• 1903 » Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television host († 1983)
• 1903 » Vladimir Jankélévitch, French musicologist and philosopher († 1985)
• 1905 » Robert Bacher, American physicist and academic († 2004)