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Birthday July 1, 1906

• The temperature on July 1, 1906 was between 5.2 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
  • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
  • 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 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Amy Johnson, English pilot († 1941)
• 1903 » Beatrix Lehmann, English actress († 1979)
• 1906 » Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded the Estée Lauder Companies († 2004)
• 1906 » Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic († 1992)
• 1907 » Norman Pirie, Scottish-English biochemist and virologist († 1997)
• 1909 » Emmett Toppino, American sprinter († 1971)