Families in Noord-Oost Brabant » Johannes Hendrikus Geurts van Kessel (1908-)

Birthday June 6, 1908

• The temperature on June 6, 1908 was between 7.9 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
  • July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
  • July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
  • August 17 » Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
  • October 1 » Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
  • October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor († 1978)
• 1906 » Max August Zorn, German mathematician and academic († 1993)
• 1907 » Bill Dickey, American baseball player and manager († 1993)
• 1907 » Robin Humphreys, British scholar of Latin America († 1999)
• 1908 » Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver († 1968)
• 1909 » Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian and philosopher († 1997)