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Birthday July 30, 1907

• The temperature on July 30, 1907 was between 11.8 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
  • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • November 7 » Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
  • December 17 » Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1955)
• 1904 » Salvador Novo, Mexican poet and playwright († 1974)
• 1909 » C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author († 1993)
• 1910 » Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer († 2003)
• 1913 » Lou Darvas, American soldier and cartoonist († 1987)
• 1914 » Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee († 1999)