Genealogy Van Raam » Gerrit Griffioen (1906-)

Birthday January 8, 1906

• The temperature on January 8, 1906 was between 1.1 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • March 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
  • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
  • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
  • August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Karl Brandt, German physician and SS officer († 1948)
• 1904 » Tampa Red, American guitarist and songwriter († 1981)
• 1905 » Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle († 1997)
• 1905 » Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and poet († 1988)
• 1906 » Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter († 1969)
• 1907 » Keizō Hayashi, Japanese general and civil servant († 1991)