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Birthday July 1, 1905

• The temperature on July 1, 1905 was between 17.4 °C and 28.4 °C and averaged 22.4 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
  • January 26 » The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
  • 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.
  • September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
  • December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
  • December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » William Wyler, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1903 » Amy Johnson, English pilot († 1941)
• 1903 » Beatrix Lehmann, English actress († 1979)
• 1906 » Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded the Estée Lauder Companies († 2004)
• 1906 » Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic († 1992)
• 1907 » Norman Pirie, Scottish-English biochemist and virologist († 1997)