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Birthday March 15, 1906

• The temperature on March 15, 1906 was between -2.9 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
  • May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
  • 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 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
  • September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian and writer († 1987)
• 1904 » George Brent, Irish-American actor († 1979)
• 1904 » J. Pat O'Malley, English-American actor († 1985)
• 1905 » Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German lawyer and judge († 1944)
• 1907 » Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer († 1981)
• 1909 » Jaroslava Muchová Syllabová, Czech painter († 1986)