From Castles to America » Elbert E. Boice Jr. (1906-)

Birthday November 21, 1906

• The temperature on November 21, 1906 was between 2.4 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
  • June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
  • June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
  • November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Foster Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster († 1985)
• 1904 » Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist and clarinet player († 1969)
• 1905 » Georgina Battiscombe, British biographer († 2006)
• 1907 » Buck Ram, American songwriter and music producer († 1991)
• 1908 » Elizabeth George Speare, American author and educator († 1994)
• 1908 » Leo Politi, Italian-American author and illustrator († 1996)