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Birthday July 23, 1908

• The temperature on July 23, 1908 was between 6.6 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
  • April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
  • April 11 » SMSBlücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
  • June 18 » Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
  • June 18 » The University of the Philippines is established.
  • September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Leopold Engleitner, Austrian author and educator († 2013)
• 1906 » Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist († 1931)
• 1906 » Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1912 » M. H. Abrams, American author, critic, and academic († 2015)
• 1912 » Michael Wilding, English actor († 1979)
• 1913 » Michael Foot, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Employment († 2010)