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Birthday September 18, 1908

• The temperature on September 18, 1908 was between 8.8 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 13 » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
  • January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
  • January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
  • June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
  • October 1 » Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
  • November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Julio Rosales, Filipino cardinal († 1983)
• 1906 » Kaka Hathrasi, Indian poet and author († 1995)
• 1906 » Maurice Maillot, French actor († 1968)
• 1907 » Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1907 » Leon Askin, Austrian actor († 2005)
• 1908 » Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic († 1996)