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Birthday September 20, 1908

• The temperature on September 20, 1908 was between 9.2 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
  • March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
  • April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
  • October 1 » Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
  • October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
  • November 25 » A fire breaks out on SSSardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Stevie Smith, English author and poet († 1971)
• 1906 » Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1997)
• 1906 » Vera Faddeeva, Russian mathematician († 1983)
• 1911 » Shriram Sharma, Indian philosopher and activist († 1991)
• 1913 » Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and academic († 2001)
• 1914 » Kenneth More, English actor († 1982)