Family tree Jacobs » Jacob van der Wijk (1906-)

Birthday December 27, 1906

• The temperature on December 27, 1906 was between -6.8 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • March 22 » The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
  • June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
  • 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.
  • June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian († 1974)
• 1906 » Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, and actor († 1972)
• 1907 » Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet († 1958)
• 1907 » Conrad L. Raiford, American baseball player and activist († 2002)
• 1907 » Mary Howard, English author († 1991)
• 1907 » Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author († 1999)