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Birthday February 28, 1907

• The temperature on February 28, 1907 was between 4.1 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
  • March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
  • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • October 27 » Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
  • November 16 » Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1906 » Bugsy Siegel, American gangster († 1947)
• 1907 » Milton Caniff, American cartoonist († 1988)
• 1908 » Billie Bird, American actress († 2002)
• 1909 » Stephen Spender, English author and poet († 1995)
• 1911 » Otakar Vávra, Czech director and screenwriter († 2011)