Lambert Freriks » Jacobus Bleumink (1907-)

Birthday September 18, 1907

• The temperature on September 18, 1907 was between 5.8 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
  • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
  • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
  • September 29 » The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
  • October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Julio Rosales, Filipino cardinal († 1983)
• 1906 » Kaka Hathrasi, Indian poet and author († 1995)
• 1906 » Maurice Maillot, French actor († 1968)
• 1907 » Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1907 » Leon Askin, Austrian actor († 2005)
• 1908 » Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic († 1996)