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Birthday February 17, 1902

• The temperature on February 17, 1902 was between -8.6 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged -3.3 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (72%). 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
  • October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
  • December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian poet and author († 1954)
• 1900 » Ruth Clifford, American actress († 1998)
• 1903 » Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian-French author and translator († 1951)
• 1904 » Hans Morgenthau, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic († 1980)
• 1905 » Rózsa Politzer, Hungarian mathematician († 1977)
• 1905 » Ruth Baldwin, British socialite († 1937)