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Birthday May 18, 1907

• The temperature on May 18, 1907 was between 1.8 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 14 » An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
  • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • August 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
  • September 26 » Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire.
  • September 29 » The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
  • December 16 » The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York Attorney General († 1986)
• 1904 » Shunryū Suzuki, Japanese-American monk and educator († 1971)
• 1905 » Hedley Verity, English cricketer and soldier († 1943)
• 1905 » Ruth Alexander, pioneering American pilot († 1930)
• 1907 » Irene Hunt, American author and educator († 2001)
• 1909 » Fred Perry, English-Australian tennis player and academic († 1995)