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Birthday October 30, 1902

• The temperature on October 30, 1902 was between 3.7 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.6 °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 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.
  • May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
  • June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
  • November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager († 1989)
• 1900 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1905 » Johnny Miles, English-Canadian runner († 2003)
• 1906 » Alexander Gode, German-American linguist and translator († 1970)
• 1906 » Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver († 1966)
• 1906 » Hermann Fegelein, German general († 1945)