Family tree Jacobs » Dimphna Maria Machielse (1908-)

Birthday June 6, 1908

• The temperature on June 6, 1908 was between 7.9 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
  • April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
  • July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
  • August 17 » Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
  • September 16 » The General Motors Corporation is founded.
  • December 28 » The 7.1 M_w  Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor († 1978)
• 1906 » Max August Zorn, German mathematician and academic († 1993)
• 1907 » Bill Dickey, American baseball player and manager († 1993)
• 1907 » Robin Humphreys, British scholar of Latin America († 1999)
• 1908 » Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver († 1968)
• 1909 » Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian and philosopher († 1997)