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Birthday June 25, 1908

• The temperature on June 25, 1908 was between 10.0 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 13 » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
  • April 8 » H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
  • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
  • July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
  • September 16 » The General Motors Corporation is founded.
  • November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic († 1950)
• 1905 » Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer and academic († 1976)
• 1907 » J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1908 » Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic († 2000)
• 1911 » William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1980)
• 1912 » William T. Cahill, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey († 1996)