Dreyer Tree » Emmerentia Magrieta Dreyer (1907-)

Birthday September 6, 1907

• The temperature on September 6, 1907 was between 15.0 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). 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.
  • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • September 26 » Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire.
  • September 30 » The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
  • December 21 » The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1908 » Anthony Wagner, English genealogist and academic († 1995)
• 1908 » Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor, designed the Crazy Horse Memorial († 1982)
• 1909 » Michael Gordon, American actor and director († 1993)
• 1910 » Walter Giesler, American soccer player, referee, and coach († 1976)
• 1911 » Harry Danning, American baseball player and coach († 2004)