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Birthday April 22, 1901

• The temperature on April 22, 1901 was between 10.9 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (85%). 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.
  • March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
  • March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
  • September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
  • September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic († 1977)
• 1900 » Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1966–67 († 1988)
• 1904 » J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic († 1967)
• 1905 » Robert Choquette, American-Canadian author, poet, and diplomat († 1991)
• 1906 » Eric Fenby, English composer and educator († 1997)
• 1906 » Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten († 1947)