Parentele of Jan Thonis » Wouter van de Pol (1906-)

Birthday August 18, 1906

• The temperature on August 18, 1906 was between 10.0 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
  • June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
  • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Max Factor, Jr., American businessman († 1996)
• 1905 » Enoch Light, American bandleader, violinist, and recording engineer († 1978)
• 1906 » Curtis Jones, American blues pianist and singer († 1971)
• 1906 » Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1908 » Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, 139th Prime Minister of France († 1988)
• 1908 » Olav H. Hauge, Norwegian poet and gardener († 1994)