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Birthday May 24, 1908

• The temperature on May 24, 1908 was between 8.4 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
  • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
  • April 16 » Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
  • June 18 » The University of the Philippines is established.
  • September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
  • October 6 » The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician († 1954)
• 1905 » George Nakashima, American woodworker and architect († 1990)
• 1905 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1909 » Wilbur Mills, American banker and politician († 1992)
• 1910 » Jimmy Demaret, American golfer († 1983)
• 1913 » Joe Abreu, American baseball player and soldier († 1993)