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Birthday April 15, 1906

• The temperature on April 15, 1906 was between 0.2 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
  • September 20 » The Cunard Line's RMSMauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
  • December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist († 2002)
• 1903 » John Williams, English-American actor († 1983)
• 1904 » Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator († 1948)
• 1907 » Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1908 » eden ahbez, Scottish-American songwriter and recording artist († 1995)
• 1908 » Lita Grey, American actress († 1995)