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Birthday January 28, 1907

• The temperature on January 28, 1907 was between 0.8 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
  • August 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
  • September 26 » Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire.
  • December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
  • December 17 » Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Aleksander Kamiński, Polish author and educator († 1978)
• 1906 » Markos Vafiadis, Greek general and politician († 1992)
• 1906 » Pat O'Callaghan, Irish athlete († 1991)
• 1908 » Paul Misraki, Turkish-French composer and historian († 1998)
• 1909 » John Thomson, Scottish footballer († 1931)
• 1910 » John Banner, Austrian actor († 1973)