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Birthday February 3, 1902

• The temperature on February 3, 1902 was between -1.0 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (26%). 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.
  • March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
  • May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
  • November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
  • November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Café Filho, Brazilian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th President of Brazil († 1970)
• 1900 » Mabel Mercer, English-American singer († 1984)
• 1903 » Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier, pilot, and politician († 1973)
• 1904 » Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster († 1934)
• 1905 » Arne Beurling, Swedish-American mathematician and academic († 1986)
• 1905 » Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist and academic († 1990)