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Birthday April 17, 1901

• The temperature on April 17, 1901 was between 1.4 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (15%). 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.
  • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
  • May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
  • June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
  • August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
  • 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

• 1897 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian philosopher and educator († 1981)
• 1897 » Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright († 1975)
• 1899 » Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach († 1958)
• 1903 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Ukrainian-American cellist and educator († 1976)
• 1903 » Morgan Taylor, American hurdler and coach († 1975)
• 1903 » Nicolas Nabokov, Russian-American composer and educator († 1978)