Family tree Kaper » Jan Harm Dijkema (1905-)

Birthday November 26, 1905

• The temperature on November 26, 1905 was between 2.3 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
  • June 7 » Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
  • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
  • September 11 » The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
  • September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
  • December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's († 1971)
• 1903 » Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-English pianist and educator († 2014)
• 1904 » Armand Frappier, Canadian physician and microbiologist († 1991)
• 1904 » K. D. Sethna, Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic († 2011)
• 1905 » Bob Johnson, American baseball player († 1982)
• 1907 » Ruth Patrick, American botanist († 2013)