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Birthday March 29, 1906

• The temperature on March 29, 1906 was between -0.5 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
  • May 22 » The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
  • 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.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Douglas Harkness, Canadian colonel and politician, 14th Canadian Minister of National Defence († 1999)
• 1906 » James Bausch, American decathlete and football player († 1974)
• 1907 » Braguinha, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer († 2006)
• 1908 » Arthur O'Connell, American actor († 1981)
• 1908 » Dennis O'Keefe, American actor and screenwriter († 1968)
• 1909 » Moon Mullican, American country and western singer-songwriter and pianist († 1967)