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Birthday September 22, 1906

• The temperature on September 22, 1906 was between 9.0 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • February 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Eugen Sänger, Czech-Austrian engineer († 1964)
• 1905 » Haakon Lie, Norwegian lawyer and politician († 2009)
• 1907 » Hermann Schlichting, German engineer and academic († 1982)
• 1907 » Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author († 2003)
• 1907 » Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver († 1981)
• 1908 » Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator († 2002)