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Birthday June 5, 1907

• The temperature on June 5, 1907 was between 8.9 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). 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 year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 29 » Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
  • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • September 29 » The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
  • October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • November 16 » Cunard Line's RMSMauretania, sister ship of RMSLusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1902 » Arthur Powell Davies, American minister, author, and activist († 1957)
• 1905 » Wayne Boring, American illustrator († 1987)
• 1912 » Dean Amadon, American ornithologist and author († 2003)
• 1912 » Eric Hollies, English cricketer († 1981)
• 1913 » Conrad Marca-Relli, American-Italian painter and academic († 2000)