Family tree Jonker » Johanna Hermanna Jonker (1906-)

Birthday April 25, 1906

• The temperature on April 25, 1906 was between -3.5 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
  • March 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
  • April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
  • September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and academic († 1964)
• 1903 » Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and academic († 1987)
• 1905 » George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player and referee († 1986)
• 1906 » William J. Brennan Jr., American colonel and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court († 1997)
• 1908 » Edward R. Murrow, American journalist († 1965)
• 1909 » William Pereira, American architect, designed the Transamerica Pyramid († 1985)