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Birthday May 6, 1907

• The temperature on May 6, 1907 was between 12.2 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • January 14 » An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
  • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
  • September 30 » The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
  • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
  • December 31 » The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Catherine Lacey, English actress († 1979)
• 1904 » Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate († 1978)
• 1904 » Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic († 1984)
• 1905 » Philip N. Krasne, American lawyer and producer († 1999)
• 1906 » André Weil, French mathematician and academic († 1998)
• 1907 » Weeb Ewbank, American football player and coach († 1998)