Family tree Snakenborg » Herman Lambeck (1908-)

Birthday December 5, 1908

• The temperature on December 5, 1908 was between -0.2 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
  • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
  • August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
  • October 1 » Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
  • November 25 » A fire breaks out on SSSardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.
  • December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1905 » Gus Mancuso, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster († 1984)
• 1905 » Otto Preminger, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer († 1986)
• 1907 » Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic († 1993)
• 1907 » Lin Biao, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1971)
• 1910 » Abraham Polonsky, American director and screenwriter († 1999)