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Birthday July 27, 1905

• The temperature on July 27, 1905 was between 12.4 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • June 7 » Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
  • August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
  • September 11 » The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
  • September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
  • October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, President of Greece († 2002)
• 1903 » Nikolay Cherkasov, Russian actor († 1966)
• 1904 » Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player († 1986)
• 1905 » Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager († 1991)
• 1906 » Herbert Jasper, Canadian psychologist and neurologist († 1999)
• 1906 » Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish author and activist († 2000)