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Birthday November 5, 1905

• The temperature on November 5, 1905 was between 6.9 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
  • May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
  • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
  • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
  • December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
  • December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1985)
• 1905 » Joel McCrea, American actor († 1990)
• 1905 » Louis Rosier, French race car driver († 1956)
• 1905 » Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet († 1973)
• 1906 » Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer († 1944)
• 1906 » Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic († 2004)