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Birthday January 27, 1907

• The temperature on January 27, 1907 was between -9.3 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 17 » The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
  • September 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • October 21 » The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
  • November 16 » Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
  • December 19 » Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » John Eccles, Australian-Swiss neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1903 » Otto P. Weyland, American general († 1979)
• 1904 » James J. Gibson, American psychologist and academic († 1979)
• 1905 » Howard McNear, American actor († 1969)
• 1908 » William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher († 1993)
• 1910 » Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general, economist, and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia († 1979)