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Birthday November 14, 1905

• The temperature on November 14, 1905 was between 1.8 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
  • May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
  • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
  • September 11 » The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
  • December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
  • December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Dick Powell, American actor, singer, director, and producer († 1963)
• 1904 » Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge († 1970)
• 1904 » Harold Larwood, English-Australian cricketer († 1995)
• 1905 » John Henry Barbee, American singer and guitarist († 1964)
• 1906 » Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer († 1985)
• 1907 » Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader, 14th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints († 1995)