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Birthday June 6, 1906

• The temperature on June 6, 1906 was between 3.7 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
  • August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
  • September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor († 1978)
• 1903 » Bakht Singh, Indian evangelist, well-known bible teacher and preacher († 2000)
• 1906 » Max August Zorn, German mathematician and academic († 1993)
• 1907 » Bill Dickey, American baseball player and manager († 1993)
• 1907 » Robin Humphreys, British scholar of Latin America († 1999)
• 1908 » Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver († 1968)