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Birthday November 28, 1908

• The temperature on November 28, 1908 was between 1.2 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 21 » New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
  • March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
  • March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
  • May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
  • November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1907 » Alberto Moravia, Italian journalist and author († 1990)
• 1907 » Rose Bampton, American soprano and educator († 2007)
• 1908 » Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-French anthropologist and ethnologist († 2009)
• 1908 » Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian educator and politician, 3rd Governor of Ondo State († 1997)
• 1910 » Elsie Quarterman, American ecologist and academic († 2014)