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Birthday June 22, 1901

• The temperature on June 22, 1901 was between 17.0 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 21.7 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). 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 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
  • January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
  • April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
  • 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.
  • October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Michał Kalecki, Polish economist and academic († 1970)
• 1899 » Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer, invented Masking tape († 1980)
• 1900 » Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract artist, filmmaker, and painter († 1967)
• 1901 » Elias Katz, Finnish runner and coach († 1947)
• 1902 » Marguerite De La Motte, American actress († 1950)
• 1903 » John Dillinger, American criminal († 1934)