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Birthday November 26, 1906

• The temperature on November 26, 1906 was between 7.9 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
  • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Armand Frappier, Canadian physician and microbiologist († 1991)
• 1904 » K. D. Sethna, Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic († 2011)
• 1905 » Bob Johnson, American baseball player († 1982)
• 1907 » Ruth Patrick, American botanist († 2013)
• 1908 » Charles Forte, Baron Forte, Italian-Scottish businessman, founded Forte Group († 2007)
• 1908 » Lefty Gomez, American baseball player and manager († 1989)