Family tree Bernouw-Jaarsveld » Willem Cornelis Bernouw (Barnouw) (1906-)

Birthday April 3, 1906

• The temperature on April 3, 1906 was between -0.3 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
  • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
  • June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
  • December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian social reformer and freedom fighter († 1988)
• 1904 » Iron Eyes Cody, American actor and stuntman († 1999)
• 1904 » Russel Wright, American furniture designer († 1976)
• 1904 » Sally Rand, American dancer († 1979)
• 1905 » Robert Sink, American general († 1965)
• 1909 » Stanislaw Ulam, Polish-American mathematician and academic († 1984)