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Birthday November 18, 1907

• The temperature on November 18, 1907 was between 6.0 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
  • April 17 » The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
  • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • August 3 » Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
  • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, designed the mini car († 1988)
• 1906 » George Wald, American neurobiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1906 » Klaus Mann, German-American novelist, short story writer, and critic († 1949)
• 1906 » Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Turkish author and poet († 1954)
• 1907 » Compay Segundo, Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2003)
• 1907 » Gustav Nezval, Czech actor († 1998)