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Birthday March 25, 1906

• The temperature on March 25, 1906 was between -2.7 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
  • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
  • April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Binnie Barnes, English-American actress († 1998)
• 1904 » Pete Johnson, American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist († 1967)
• 1905 » Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, German colonel († 1944)
• 1906 » A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and academic († 1990)
• 1906 » Jean Sablon, French singer and actor († 1994)
• 1908 » David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1991)