Family tree Mijjer » Gustaaf Daniel Maria Vestergaard (1906-)

Birthday August 26, 1906

• The temperature on August 26, 1906 was between 12.3 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
  • June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
  • June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
  • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Christopher Isherwood, English-American author and academic († 1986)
• 1904 » Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer († 1991)
• 1906 » Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine († 1993)
• 1906 » Bunny Austin, English tennis player († 2000)
• 1908 » Aubrey Schenck, American screenwriter and producer († 1999)
• 1908 » Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar († 1967)