Genealogy Manuel » Hugo "Hugo" Boogert (1908-)

Birthday July 9, 1908

• The temperature on July 9, 1908 was between 13.2 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
  • January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
  • January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
  • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
  • October 6 » The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1908 » Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani philosopher and scholar († 1973)
• 1908 » Minor White, American photographer, critic, and educator († 1976)
• 1909 » Basil Wolverton, American author and illustrator († 1978)
• 1910 » Govan Mbeki, South African anti-apartheid and ANC leader and activist († 2001)