Genealogy van Brakel- Blanken- van Rootselaar- Luigjes » Willem van Brakel (1905-)

Birthday July 10, 1905

• The temperature on July 10, 1905 was between 16.5 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
  • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
  • September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
  • October 5 » The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
  • November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » John Wyndham, English soldier and author († 1969)
• 1903 » Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist († 1989)
• 1904 » Lili Damita, French-American actress († 1994)
• 1905 » Mildred Benson, American journalist and author († 2002)
• 1905 » Thomas Gomez, American actor († 1971)
• 1905 » Wolfram Sievers, German physician († 1948)