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Birthday September 21, 1907

• The temperature on September 21, 1907 was between 6.7 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
  • October 27 » Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
  • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
  • December 16 » The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Preston Tucker, American engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan († 1956)
• 1904 » Hans Hartung, German-French painter († 1989)
• 1905 » Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman and politician († 1999)
• 1906 » Henry Beachell, American biologist and botanist († 2006)
• 1909 » Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian educator and politician, 1st President of Ghana († 1972)
• 1910 » Meinrad Schütter, Swiss composer († 2006)