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Birthday June 9, 1901

• The temperature on June 9, 1901 was between 8.8 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (56%). 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.
  • June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
  • September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
  • October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
  • November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
  • 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

• 1898 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver († 1952)
• 1900 » Fred Waring, American singer, bandleader, and television host († 1984)
• 1902 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1969)
• 1903 » Felice Bonetto, Italian race car driver († 1953)
• 1903 » Marcia Davenport, American author and critic († 1996)
• 1906 » Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice († 1997)