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Birthday November 1, 1901

• The temperature on November 1, 1901 was between 1.6 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (86%). 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.
  • January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
  • March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
  • May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
  • 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 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
  • 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 » Arthur Legat, Belgian race car driver († 1960)
• 1898 » Sippie Wallace, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1986)
• 1902 » Eugen Jochum, German conductor († 1987)
• 1902 » Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian journalist, author, poet, and playwright († 1943)
• 1903 » Edward Greeves, Jr., Australian footballer († 1963)
• 1903 » Max Adrian, Irish-born British actor († 1973)