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Birthday January 11, 1906

• The temperature on January 11, 1906 was between 2.7 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
  • April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 20 » The Cunard Line's RMSMauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
  • September 24 » Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot, further increasing racial segregation.
  • December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1905 » Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist and theorist († 1960)
• 1906 » Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD († 2008)
• 1907 » Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-American rabbi, theologian, and philosopher († 1972)
• 1907 » Pierre Mendès France, French lawyer and politician, 142nd Prime Minister of France († 1982)
• 1908 » Lionel Stander, American actor and activist († 1994)