Database Van Broekhoven » Antonia Catharina Doll (1906-)

Birthday August 28, 1906

• The temperature on August 28, 1906 was between 6.5 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • March 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
  • April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
  • November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author († 1990)
• 1904 » Leho Laurine, Estonian chess player († 1998)
• 1904 » Secondo Campini, Italian-American engineer († 1980)
• 1905 » Cyril Walters, Welsh-English cricketer († 1992)
• 1906 » John Betjeman, English poet and academic († 1984)
• 1908 » Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author († 1996)