Ancestors Paul Bouw » Johanna Juliana van der Roest (1907-)

Birthday October 20, 1907

• The temperature on October 20, 1907 was between 9.7 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
  • May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
  • June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
  • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • September 26 » Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1904 » Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian minister and politician, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan († 1986)
• 1907 » Arlene Francis, American actress and television personality († 2001)
• 1908 » Stuart Hamblen, American singer-songwriter, actor, and radio show host († 1989)
• 1909 » Carla Laemmle, American actress and photographer († 2014)
• 1909 » Yasushi Sugiyama, Japanese painter († 1993)