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Birthday July 2, 1908

• The temperature on July 2, 1908 was between 12.3 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 15.5 hours of sunshine (93%). 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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
  • January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
  • January 21 » New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
  • April 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
  • May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
  • July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt († 1996)
• 1906 » Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1906 » Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler († 1996)
• 1906 » Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner († 1993)
• 1908 » Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd Solicitor General of the United States († 1993)
• 1911 » Reg Parnell, English race car driver and manager († 1964)