Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Hendrik Gerhardus PRETORIUS (1906-)

Birthday July 28, 1906

• The temperature on July 28, 1906 was between 12.1 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
  • March 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
  • April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
  • August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
  • September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1979)
• 1902 » Albert Namatjira, Australian painter († 1959)
• 1902 » Sir Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic († 1994)
• 1907 » Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded Tupperware Brands († 1983)
• 1909 » Aenne Burda, German publisher († 2005)
• 1909 » Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet († 1957)