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Birthday February 13, 1906

• The temperature on February 13, 1906 was between -2.9 and 3.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
  • 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.
  • 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 24 » Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot, further increasing racial segregation.
  • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
  • December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Harold Lasswell, American political scientist and theorist († 1978)
• 1903 » Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author († 1989)
• 1903 » Georgy Beriev, Georgian-Russian engineer, founded the Beriev Aircraft Company († 1979)
• 1906 » Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher and author († 1994)
• 1907 » Katy de la Cruz, Filipino-American singer and actress († 2004)
• 1910 » William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)