Stamboom familie Leenen te Sint-Truiden België » Germain Joseph Pierre Vranken (1905-)

Birthday January 7, 1905

• The temperature on January 7, 1905 was between -0.9 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • May 28 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
  • September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
  • October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
  • December 15 » The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
  • December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (disputed; d. 1941)
• 1899 » Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer († 1963)
• 1900 » John Brownlee, Australian actor and singer († 1969)
• 1906 » Red Allen, American trumpet player († 1967)
• 1910 » Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas († 1994)
• 1912 » Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family († 1988)