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Birthday April 18, 1906

• The temperature on April 18, 1906 was between 5.7 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • March 15 » Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
  • April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
  • May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
  • May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
  • September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
  • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy († 1981)
• 1902 » Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author († 1972)
• 1904 » Pigmeat Markham, African-American comedian, singer, and dancer († 1981)
• 1905 » George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1905 » Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman († 1990)
• 1907 » Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor († 1995)