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Birthday December 6, 1901

• The temperature on December 6, 1901 was between -4.9 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged -0.4 °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.
  • July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
  • August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
  • October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
  • October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
  • November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
  • November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist († 1995)
• 1898 » Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1898 » John McDonald, Scottish-Australian politician, 37th Premier of Victoria († 1977)
• 1900 » Agnes Moorehead, American actress († 1974)
• 1901 » Eliot Porter, American photographer and academic († 1990)
• 1903 » Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and manager († 1946)