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Birthday October 2, 1906

• The temperature on October 2, 1906 was between 9.3 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 17.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
  • April 7 » The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
  • April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
  • May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
  • November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
  • December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

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• 1904 » Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic († 1991)
• 1905 » Franjo Šeper, Croatian cardinal († 1981)
• 1906 » August Komendant, Estonian-American engineer and academic († 1992)
• 1906 » Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria († 1971)
• 1907 » Alexander R. Todd, Scottish-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1907 » Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia († 2001)