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Birthday August 17, 1902

• The temperature on August 17, 1902 was between 12.2 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). 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 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
  • April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
  • June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
  • October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
  • November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Leslie Groves, American general and engineer († 1970)
• 1896 » Tõnis Kint, Estonian lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile († 1991)
• 1900 » Pauline A. Young, African-American teacher, historian, aviator and activist († 1991)
• 1900 » Vivienne de Watteville, British travel writer and adventurer († 1957)
• 1904 » Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer and musicologist († 1991)
• 1904 » Mary Cain, American journalist and politician († 1984)