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Birthday June 9, 1902

• The temperature on June 9, 1902 was between 7.4 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (17%). 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.
  • January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
  • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  • May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
  • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
  • June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

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)