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Birthday December 14, 1906

• The temperature on December 14, 1906 was between 0.4 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
  • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
  • June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Walter Rangeley, English sprinter († 1982)
• 1904 » Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist († 2003)
• 1908 » Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player († 2001)
• 1908 » Mária Szepes, Hungarian journalist, author, and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1908 » Morey Amsterdam, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1909 » Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)