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Birthday August 18, 1905

• The temperature on August 18, 1905 was between 10.1 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
  • 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.
  • October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
  • November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
  • December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
  • December 15 » The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1903 » Lucienne Boyer, French singer († 1983)
• 1904 » Max Factor, Jr., American businessman († 1996)
• 1905 » Enoch Light, American bandleader, violinist, and recording engineer († 1978)
• 1906 » Curtis Jones, American blues pianist and singer († 1971)
• 1906 » Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter († 1996)