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Birthday February 1, 1906

• The temperature on February 1, 1906 was between 0.3 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 1 » The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
  • December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » S.J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1905 » Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1906 » Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian lawyer and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria († 1993)
• 1907 » Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian pianist and composer († 1993)
• 1907 » Günter Eich, German author and songwriter († 1972)
• 1908 » George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and producer († 1980)