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Birthday August 19, 1907

• The temperature on August 19, 1907 was between 10.8 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
  • November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
  • November 16 » Cunard Line's RMSMauretania, sister ship of RMSLusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman († 1963)
• 1906 » Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor († 1971)
• 1907 » Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Indian historian, author, and scholar († 1979)
• 1907 » Thruston Ballard Morton, American soldier and politician († 1982)
• 1909 » Ronald King, New Zealand rugby player († 1988)
• 1910 » Quentin Bell, English historian and author († 1996)