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Birthday December 14, 1908

• The temperature on December 14, 1908 was between 6.7 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 21 » New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
  • March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
  • May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
  • June 18 » The University of the Philippines is established.
  • June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
  • August 17 » Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player († 2001)
• 1908 » Mária Szepes, Hungarian journalist, author, and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1908 » Morey Amsterdam, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1909 » Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1911 » Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer († 1998)
• 1911 » Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader († 1965)