Lax Family Tree » Nathan Paul Friedlander Tawrigowski (1906-1943)

Birthday January 7, 1906

• The temperature on January 7, 1906 was between 3.9 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
  • September 20 » The Cunard Line's RMSMauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
  • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (disputed; d. 1941)
• 1899 » Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer († 1963)
• 1900 » John Brownlee, Australian actor and singer († 1969)
• 1906 » Red Allen, American trumpet player († 1967)
• 1910 » Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas († 1994)
• 1912 » Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family († 1988)