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Birthday June 21, 1906

• The temperature on June 21, 1906 was between 9.8 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
  • September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
  • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
  • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
  • December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator († 2003)
• 1903 » Hermann Engelhard, German runner and coach († 1984)
• 1905 » Jacques Goddet, French journalist († 2000)
• 1905 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author († 1980)
• 1908 » William Frankena, American philosopher and academic († 1994)
• 1910 » Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Russian poet and author († 1971)