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Birthday August 30, 1906

• The temperature on August 30, 1906 was between 8.6 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • 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.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Joan Blondell, American actress and singer († 1979)
• 1906 » Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian mathematician († 1995)
• 1907 » Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist († 1978)
• 1907 » John Mauchly, American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company († 1980)
• 1907 » Leonor Fini, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and author († 1996)
• 1908 » Fred MacMurray, American actor († 1991)