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Birthday December 14, 1906

• The temperature on December 14, 1906 was between 0.4 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
  • June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
  • June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
  • September 12 » The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
  • 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

• 1903 » Walter Rangeley, English sprinter († 1982)
• 1904 » Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist († 2003)
• 1908 » Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player († 2001)
• 1908 » Mária Szepes, Hungarian journalist, author, and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1908 » Morey Amsterdam, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1909 » Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)