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Birthday January 22, 1906

• The temperature on January 22, 1906 was between -3.0 and 2.6 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • March 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
  • April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
  • April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
  • September 1 » The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
  • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Arkady Gaidar, Russian journalist and author († 1941)
• 1904 » George Balanchine, Georgian-American dancer, choreographer, and director, co-founded the New York City Ballet († 1983)
• 1905 » Willy Hartner, German physicist, historian, and academic († 1981)
• 1906 » Robert E. Howard, American author and poet († 1936)
• 1907 » Dixie Dean, English footballer († 1980)
• 1907 » Douglas Corrigan, American pilot and engineer († 1995)