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Birthday June 7, 1905

• The temperature on June 7, 1905 was between 9.9 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. The average windspeed was 3 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 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.
  • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
  • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
  • September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
  • September 8 » The 7.2 M_w  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
  • September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
  • December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Georges Van Parys, French composer († 1971)
• 1902 » Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic († 2000)
• 1905 » James J. Braddock, American lieutenant and boxer († 1974)
• 1906 » Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader († 1963)
• 1907 » Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg († 2002)
• 1909 » Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test († 1974)