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Birthday August 24, 1907

• The temperature on August 24, 1907 was between 6.1 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
  • August 3 » Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
  • August 17 » Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened.
  • November 7 » Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
  • December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
  • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell († 1986)
• 1905 » Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1974)
• 1905 » Siaka Stevens, Sierra Leonean police officer and politician, 1st President of Sierra Leone († 1988)
• 1907 » Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect, designed the Hallenstadion († 2012)
• 1908 » Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist († 1931)
• 1909 » Ronnie Grieveson, South African cricketer and soldier († 1998)