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Birthday March 25, 1906

• The temperature on March 25, 1906 was between -2.6 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
  • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
  • September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
  • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
  • December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Binnie Barnes, English-American actress († 1998)
• 1904 » Pete Johnson, American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist († 1967)
• 1905 » Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, German colonel († 1944)
• 1906 » A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and academic († 1990)
• 1906 » Jean Sablon, French singer and actor († 1994)
• 1908 » David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1991)