Dreyer Tree » Wessel Johannes Nicolaas Wessels (1907-)

Birthday July 27, 1907

• The temperature on July 27, 1907 was between 9.6 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
  • October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
  • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Herbert Jasper, Canadian psychologist and neurologist († 1999)
• 1906 » Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish author and activist († 2000)
• 1907 » Carl McClellan Hill, American educator and academic administrator († 1995)
• 1907 » Irene Fischer, Austrian-American geodesist and mathematician († 2009)
• 1907 » Ross Alexander, American stage and film actor († 1937)
• 1908 » Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author († 1996)