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Birthday September 30, 1901

• The temperature on September 30, 1901 was between 8.2 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (43%). 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 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
  • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
  • June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
  • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
  • December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
  • December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Gaspar Cassadó, Spanish cellist and composer († 1966)
• 1898 » Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, German-American author and illustrator († 1986)
• 1898 » Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois († 1977)
• 1898 » Renée Adorée, French-American actress († 1933)
• 1901 » Thelma Terry, American bassist and bandleader († 1966)
• 1904 » Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic († 1971)