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Birthday January 31, 1906

• The temperature on January 31, 1906 was between -1.0 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
  • March 22 » The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
  • June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
  • 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.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 1 » The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1902 » Julian Steward, American anthropologist († 1972)
• 1902 » Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman, founded White Spot († 1978)
• 1902 » Tallulah Bankhead, American actress († 1968)
• 1905 » John O'Hara, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1970)
• 1909 » Miron Grindea, Romanian-English journalist († 1995)