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Birthday July 25, 1906

• The temperature on July 25, 1906 was between 11.0 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
  • 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.)
  • September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
  • September 24 » Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot, further increasing racial segregation.
  • September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
  • December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator († 1990)
• 1905 » Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1905 » Georges Grignard, French race car driver († 1977)
• 1906 » Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist and clarinet player († 1970)
• 1908 » Ambroise-Marie Carré, French priest and author († 2004)
• 1908 » Bill Bowes, English cricketer († 1987)