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Birthday April 5, 1907

• The temperature on April 5, 1907 was between 1.3 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
  • January 29 » Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
  • February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
  • September 30 » The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
  • November 7 » Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
  • December 21 » The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Albert Charles Smith, American botanist († 1999)
• 1906 » Fernando Germani, Italian organist († 1998)
• 1906 » Ted Morgan, New Zealand boxer († 1952)
• 1907 » Sanya Dharmasakti, Thai jurist († 2002)
• 1908 » Bette Davis, American actress († 1989)
• 1908 » Kurt Neumann, German director († 1958)