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Birthday June 7, 1907

• The temperature on June 7, 1907 was between 8.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
  • February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • October 21 » The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
  • December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » James J. Braddock, American lieutenant and boxer († 1974)
• 1906 » Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader († 1963)
• 1907 » Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg († 2002)
• 1909 » Jessica Tandy, English-American actress († 1994)
• 1909 » Peter W. Rodino, American captain, lawyer, and politician († 2005)
• 1909 » Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test († 1974)