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Birthday August 5, 1905

• The temperature on August 5, 1905 was between 14.5 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
  • February 5 » In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
  • April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
  • May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Kenneth V. Thimann, English-American botanist and microbiologist († 1997)
• 1906 » Joan Hickson, English actress († 1998)
• 1906 » John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1906 » Wassily Leontief, German-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)
• 1908 » Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia († 1967)
• 1908 » Jose Garcia Villa, Filipino short story writer and poet († 1997)