Genealogy familie Kies, Vergoossen, Damen en Midden Limburgse Families » Anna Isabella Hubertina Bänziger (1906-1906)

Birthday May 8, 1906

• The temperature on May 8, 1906 was between 11.8 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (79%). 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 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
  • August 5 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
  • September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
  • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1903 » Fernandel, French actor and singer († 1971)
• 1903 » Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch, British politician and educator († 1984)
• 1904 » John Snagge, English journalist († 1996)
• 1905 » Red Nichols, American cornet player, composer, and bandleader († 1965)
• 1906 » Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter († 1977)