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Birthday August 28, 1907

• The temperature on August 28, 1907 was between 5.7 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
  • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
  • September 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
  • December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Leho Laurine, Estonian chess player († 1998)
• 1904 » Secondo Campini, Italian-American engineer († 1980)
• 1905 » Cyril Walters, Welsh-English cricketer († 1992)
• 1906 » John Betjeman, English poet and academic († 1984)
• 1908 » Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author († 1996)
• 1910 » Morris Graves, American painter and academic († 2001)