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Birthday June 19, 1908

• The temperature on June 19, 1908 was between 11.8 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 10.6 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
  • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
  • April 1 » The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
  • April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
  • September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
  • September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1906 » Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer († 1975)
• 1906 » Walter Rauff, German SS officer († 1984)
• 1907 » Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 10th General of the Salvation Army († 1985)
• 1909 » Osamu Dazai, Japanese author († 1948)
• 1909 » Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player († 1948)