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Birthday November 28, 1907

• The temperature on November 28, 1907 was between 5.6 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 29 » Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • September 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • December 17 » Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1906 » Henry Picard, American golfer († 1997)
• 1907 » Alberto Moravia, Italian journalist and author († 1990)
• 1907 » Rose Bampton, American soprano and educator († 2007)
• 1908 » Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-French anthropologist and ethnologist († 2009)
• 1908 » Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian educator and politician, 3rd Governor of Ondo State († 1997)