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Birthday June 19, 1901

• The temperature on June 19, 1901 was between 5.1 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (59%). 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.
  • February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
  • February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
  • August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
  • October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
  • November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
  • 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".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1902 » Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader († 1977)
• 1903 » Hans Litten, German lawyer († 1938)
• 1903 » Lou Gehrig, American baseball player († 1941)
• 1903 » Mary Callery, American-French sculptor and academic († 1977)
• 1903 » Wally Hammond, English cricketer and coach († 1965)