Dreyer Tree » Catharina Beatrice Janse van Vuuren (1907-)

Birthday August 30, 1907

• The temperature on August 30, 1907 was between 9.1 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
  • 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.
  • December 16 » The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
  • December 21 » The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.
  • December 31 » The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.

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)