Genealogy Spierenburg » Teunis van Buuren (1906-)

Birthday September 22, 1906

• The temperature on September 22, 1906 was between 9.0 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
  • May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
  • June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
  • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
  • December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Eugen Sänger, Czech-Austrian engineer († 1964)
• 1905 » Haakon Lie, Norwegian lawyer and politician († 2009)
• 1907 » Hermann Schlichting, German engineer and academic († 1982)
• 1907 » Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author († 2003)
• 1907 » Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver († 1981)
• 1908 » Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator († 2002)