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Birthday August 6, 1906

• The temperature on August 6, 1906 was between 10.3 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (84%). 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 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
  • September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
  • September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
  • September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
  • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
  • December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach († 1993)
• 1904 » Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer († 1970)
• 1906 » Vic Dickenson, American trombonist († 1984)
• 1908 » Helen Jacobs, American tennis player and commander († 1997)
• 1908 » Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter and illustrator († 1941)
• 1908 » Maria Ludwika Bernhard, Polish classical archaeologist and a member of WWII Polish resistance († 1998)