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Birthday May 23, 1907

• The temperature on May 23, 1907 was between 11.0 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 28 » The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
  • June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • September 26 » Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire.
  • December 8 » King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Hélène Boucher, French pilot († 1934)
• 1908 » John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1910 » Franz Kline, American painter and academic († 1962)
• 1910 » Hugh Casson, English architect and academic († 1999)
• 1910 » Margaret Wise Brown, American author and educator († 1952)
• 1910 » Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian († 1986)