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Birthday April 26, 1906

• The temperature on April 26, 1906 was between -2 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (32%). 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 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
  • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
  • December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal († 1991)
• 1904 » Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, 177th Prime Minister of Greece († 2004)
• 1905 » Jean Vigo, French director and screenwriter († 1934)
• 1907 » Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1968)
• 1909 » Marianne Hoppe, German actress († 2002)
• 1910 » Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter and producer († 1997)