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Birthday September 24, 1906

• The temperature on September 24, 1906 was between 3.9 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
  • June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
  • June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • September 12 » The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
  • September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran († 1989)
• 1905 » Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1993)
• 1906 » Józef Nawrot, Polish footballer († 1982)
• 1906 » Leonard Marsh, Canadian sociologist and academic († 1982)
• 1907 » Ben Oakland, American pianist, composer, and songwriter († 1979)
• 1909 » Gerard Antoni Ciołek, Polish historian and architect († 1966)