Database Van Broekhoven » Johanna Petronella Cornelia Josephina de Brouwer (1906-)

Birthday March 30, 1906

• The temperature on March 30, 1906 was between -1.3 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • March 15 » Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
  • May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
  • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
  • June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
  • September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1904 » Ripper Collins, American baseball player and coach († 1970)
• 1905 » Albert Pierrepoint, English hangman († 1992)
• 1905 » Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer († 1927)
• 1905 » Mikio Oda, Japanese triple jumper and academic († 1998)
• 1907 » Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German general († 1994)