FutureHistory » Albert Karel van Buynder (1906-)

Birthday May 20, 1906

• The temperature on May 20, 1906 was between 7.1 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 13.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
  • April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
  • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1906 » Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal († 1989)
• 1907 » Carl Mydans, American photographer and journalist († 2004)
• 1908 » Francis Raymond Fosberg, American botanist and author († 1993)
• 1908 » Henry Bolte, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Victoria († 1990)
• 1908 » Louis Daquin, French actor and director († 1980)