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Birthday January 16, 1906

• The temperature on January 16, 1906 was between 4.6 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
  • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
  • September 1 » The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
  • December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor († 1989)
• 1906 » Diana Wynyard, English actress († 1964)
• 1906 » Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer and pilot († 1975)
• 1907 » Alexander Knox, Canadian-English actor and screenwriter († 1995)
• 1907 » Paul Nitze, American banker and politician, 10th United States Secretary of the Navy († 2004)
• 1908 » Sammy Crooks, English footballer († 1981)