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Birthday April 22, 1906

• The temperature on April 22, 1906 was between 3.9 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
  • June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
  • September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
  • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
  • December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic († 1967)
• 1905 » Robert Choquette, American-Canadian author, poet, and diplomat († 1991)
• 1906 » Eric Fenby, English composer and educator († 1997)
• 1906 » Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten († 1947)
• 1908 » Ivan Yefremov, Russian paleontologist and author († 1972)
• 1909 » Rita Levi-Montalcini, Sephardic Jewish-Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)