Noordwijkerhout Van Toen (NoVaTo) » Gerardus Johannes Augustinus Knijnenburg (1906-)

Birthday October 6, 1906

• The temperature on October 6, 1906 was between 12.4 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
  • March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
  • 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.
  • June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
  • November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
  • December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
• 1905 » Helen Wills, American tennis player and painter († 1998)
• 1906 » Janet Gaynor, American actress († 1984)
• 1906 » Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach († 1946)
• 1908 » Carole Lombard, American actress († 1942)
• 1908 » Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic († 1989)