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Birthday October 27, 1908

• The temperature on October 27, 1908 was between 6.3 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
  • April 16 » Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
  • 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.
  • September 16 » The General Motors Corporation is founded.

Source: Wikipedia

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