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Birthday December 28, 1907

• The temperature on December 28, 1907 was between -7.1 °C and -2.7 °C and averaged -4.6 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
  • May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
  • June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • September 30 » The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
  • December 31 » The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1903 » John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist († 1957)
• 1907 » Ze'ev Ben-Haim, Ukrainian-Israeli linguist and academic († 2013)
• 1908 » Lew Ayres, American actor († 1996)
• 1910 » Billy Williams, American singer († 1972)
• 1911 » Wil van Beveren, Dutch sprinter and journalist († 2003)