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Birthday November 30, 1901

• The temperature on November 30, 1901 was between 5.3 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). 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 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
  • February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
  • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
  • 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 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
  • 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

• 1898 » Firpo Marberry, American baseball player and manager († 1976)
• 1904 » Clyfford Still, American painter and educator († 1980)
• 1906 » Andrés Henestrosa, Mexican poet, linguist, and politician († 2008)
• 1906 » John Dickson Carr, American author and playwright († 1977)
• 1907 » Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author († 2012)
• 1909 » Robert Nighthawk, American singer and guitarist († 1967)