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Birthday February 4, 1906

• The temperature on February 4, 1906 was between -1.3 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
  • August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » MacKinlay Kantor, American author and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1905 » Hylda Baker, English comedian, actress and music hall performer († 1986)
• 1906 » Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto († 1997)
• 1906 » Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian († 1945)
• 1906 » Letitia Dunbar-Harrison, Irish librarian († 1994)
• 1908 » Julian Bell, English poet and academic († 1937)