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Birthday November 4, 1907

• The temperature on November 4, 1907 was between 1.9 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
  • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • December 11 » The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
  • December 21 » The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet and translator († 2007)
• 1906 » Sterling North, American author and critic († 1974)
• 1908 » Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1908 » Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer and photographer († 1997)
• 1909 » Bert Patenaude, American soccer player († 1974)
• 1909 » Evelyn Bryan Johnson, American colonel and pilot († 2012)