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Birthday April 13, 1902

• The temperature on April 13, 1902 was between 5.5 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (20%). 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 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  • January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • 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.
  • August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer († 1976)
• 1900 » Sorcha Boru, American potter and ceramic sculptor († 2006)
• 1901 » Alan Watt, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan († 1988)
• 1901 » Jacques Lacan, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst († 1981)
• 1902 » Marguerite Henry, American author († 1997)
• 1902 » Philippe de Rothschild, French Grand Prix driver, playwright, and producer († 1988)