FutureHistory » Emile Gustave Buytaert (1908-)

Birthday June 19, 1908

• The temperature on June 19, 1908 was between 11.3 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 10.6 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • April 1 » The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
  • April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
  • June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
  • July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
  • November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
  • December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1906 » Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer († 1975)
• 1906 » Walter Rauff, German SS officer († 1984)
• 1907 » Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 10th General of the Salvation Army († 1985)
• 1909 » Osamu Dazai, Japanese author († 1948)
• 1909 » Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player († 1948)