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.
  • January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
  • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
  • April 11 » SMSBlücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
  • May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
  • July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
  • 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.

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)