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Birthday October 4, 1908

• The temperature on October 4, 1908 was between 9.1 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
  • February 1 » Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
  • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
  • October 1 » Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
  • November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
  • December 28 » The 7.1 M_w  Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1903 » John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff-Berry computer († 1995)
• 1906 » Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician († 1996)
• 1907 » Alain Daniélou, French-Swiss historian and academic († 1994)
• 1910 » Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author († 1956)
• 1910 » Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach († 2002)