Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Francis GROELL (1906-1978)

Birthday March 2, 1906

• The temperature on March 2, 1906 was between 0.2 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
  • March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • August 5 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
  • September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy († 1972)
• 1904 » Dr. Seuss, American children's book writer, poet, and illustrator († 1991)
• 1905 » Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic († 1985)
• 1905 » Marc Blitzstein, American composer and songwriter († 1964)
• 1908 » Walter Bruch, German engineer († 1990)
• 1909 » Mel Ott, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster († 1958)