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Birthday June 29, 1906

• The temperature on June 29, 1906 was between 9.9 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 16.4 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
  • November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
  • December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
  • December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Alan Blumlein, English engineer, developed the H2S radar († 1942)
• 1904 » Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician († 1956)
• 1906 » Heinz Harmel, German general († 2000)
• 1906 » Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Ukrainian general († 1945)
• 1908 » Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower († 1963)
• 1908 » Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor († 1975)