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Birthday September 17, 1901

• The temperature on September 17, 1901 was between 9.6 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.6 °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.
  • February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
  • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
  • March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
  • September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
  • October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
  • 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

• 1900 » Hedwig Ross, New Zealand-born educator and political activist, founding member of the Communist Party of New Zealand († 1971)
• 1900 » Hughie Critz, American baseball player († 1980)
• 1900 » J. Willard Marriott, American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation († 1985)
• 1900 » Lena Frances Edwards, African-American physician, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom († 1986)
• 1900 » Martha Ostenso, Canadian screenwriter and novelist († 1963)
• 1901 » Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor († 1972)