Genealogy Spierenburg » Elisabeth van Beelen (1906-)

Birthday December 25, 1906

• The temperature on December 25, 1906 was between -2.8 and 3.6 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
  • March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
  • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
  • September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
  • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)
• 1906 » Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1906 » Lew Grade, Baron Grade, Ukrainian-English film producer († 1998)
• 1907 » Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader († 1994)
• 1907 » Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel († 1988)
• 1907 » Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-American wrestler and actor († 1990)