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Birthday June 9, 1901

• The temperature on June 9, 1901 was between 9.3 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (56%). 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.
  • May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
  • August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
  • September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
  • September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
  • September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
  • December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver († 1952)
• 1900 » Fred Waring, American singer, bandleader, and television host († 1984)
• 1902 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1969)
• 1903 » Felice Bonetto, Italian race car driver († 1953)
• 1903 » Marcia Davenport, American author and critic († 1996)
• 1906 » Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice († 1997)