Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Leofwin Lennox BRINKWORTH (1906-1980)

Birthday January 3, 1906

• The temperature on January 3, 1906 was between -3.6 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
  • June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • 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.)
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Ngô Đình Diệm, Vietnamese lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam († 1963)
• 1905 » Anna May Wong, American actress († 1961)
• 1905 » Dante Giacosa, Italian engineer († 1996)
• 1907 » Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director († 1986)
• 1909 » Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist and conductor († 2000)
• 1910 » Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player and manager († 2000)