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Birthday November 13, 1902

• The temperature on November 13, 1902 was between 4.2 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (78%). 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.
  • 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.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
  • 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 » Iskander Mirza, Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan († 1969)
• 1900 » David Marshall Williams, American convicted murderer and firearms designer († 1975)
• 1900 » Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1985)
• 1904 » H. C. Potter, American director and producer († 1977)
• 1906 » A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic († 1987)
• 1906 » Hermione Baddeley, English actress († 1986)