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Birthday January 8, 1906

• The temperature on January 8, 1906 was between 0.7 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
  • June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
  • 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.
  • December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Karl Brandt, German physician and SS officer († 1948)
• 1904 » Tampa Red, American guitarist and songwriter († 1981)
• 1905 » Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle († 1997)
• 1905 » Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and poet († 1988)
• 1906 » Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter († 1969)
• 1907 » Keizō Hayashi, Japanese general and civil servant († 1991)