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Birthday February 28, 1905

• The temperature on February 28, 1905 was between 0.4 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
  • March 23 » Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
  • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
  • May 28 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
  • September 11 » The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
  • December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1903 » Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1906 » Bugsy Siegel, American gangster († 1947)
• 1907 » Milton Caniff, American cartoonist († 1988)
• 1908 » Billie Bird, American actress († 2002)
• 1909 » Stephen Spender, English author and poet († 1995)