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Birthday June 27, 1905

• The temperature on June 27, 1905 was between 12.2 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 5 » In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
  • June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
  • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
  • October 5 » The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
  • October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
  • December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Merle Tuve, American geophysicist and academic († 1982)
• 1905 » Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player († 1976)
• 1906 » Catherine Cookson, English author and philanthropist († 1998)
• 1906 » Vernon Watkins, Welsh-American poet and painter († 1967)
• 1907 » John McIntire, American actor († 1991)
• 1908 » João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian physician and author († 1967)