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Birthday September 23, 1908

• The temperature on September 23, 1908 was between 13.0 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
  • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
  • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
  • July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
  • October 6 » The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat, High Commission of Canada to the United Kingdom († 1995)
• 1907 » Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza († 1976)
• 1907 » Tiny Bradshaw, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1958)
• 1908 » Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Indian poet, academic, and politician († 1974)
• 1909 » Lorenc Antoni, Kosovo-Albanian composer and conductor († 1991)
• 1910 » Jakob Streit, Swiss anthroposophist and author († 2009)