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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.
  • August 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
  • September 26 » Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire.
  • November 16 » Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
  • December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
  • 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.

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)