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Birthday November 22, 1906

• The temperature on November 22, 1906 was between 6.6 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. 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 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
  • 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 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 1 » The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general († 1947)
• 1904 » Fumio Niwa, Japanese author († 2005)
• 1904 » Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1904 » Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and illustrator († 1957)
• 1906 » Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist († 1983)
• 1909 » Mikhail Mil, Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant († 1970)