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Birthday February 27, 1901

• The temperature on February 27, 1901 was between 1.3 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. 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 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
  • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
  • 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.
  • November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.
  • 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

• 1899 » Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin († 1978)
• 1901 » Marino Marini, Italian sculptor and academic († 1980)
• 1901 » Kotama Okada, Japanese religious leader († 1974)
• 1902 » Gene Sarazen, American golfer and sportscaster († 1999)
• 1902 » John Steinbeck, American journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1902 » Lúcio Costa, French-Brazilian architect and engineer, designed Gustavo Capanema Palace († 1998)