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Birthday June 4, 1907

• The temperature on June 4, 1907 was between 7.6 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
  • 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 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • October 21 » The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
  • November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Yevgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor († 1988)
• 1904 » Bhagat Puran Singh, Indian publisher, environmentalist, and philanthropist († 1992)
• 1907 » Jacques Roumain, Haitian journalist and politician († 1944)
• 1907 » Patience Strong, English poet and journalist († 1990)
• 1907 » Rosalind Russell, American actress († 1976)
• 1910 » Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft († 1999)