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Birthday November 18, 1907

• The temperature on November 18, 1907 was between 6.0 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • May 28 » The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
  • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
  • August 17 » Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened.
  • October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
  • November 16 » Cunard Line's RMSMauretania, sister ship of RMSLusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, designed the mini car († 1988)
• 1906 » George Wald, American neurobiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1906 » Klaus Mann, German-American novelist, short story writer, and critic († 1949)
• 1906 » Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Turkish author and poet († 1954)
• 1907 » Compay Segundo, Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2003)
• 1907 » Gustav Nezval, Czech actor († 1998)