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Birthday August 1, 1905

• The temperature on August 1, 1905 was between 12.8 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
  • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
  • May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
  • June 7 » Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
  • August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
  • November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player († 1965)
• 1901 » Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer († 1925)
• 1903 » Paul Horgan, American historian, author, and academic († 1995)
• 1905 » Helen Sawyer Hogg, American-Canadian astronomer and academic († 1993)
• 1907 » Eric Shipton, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer and explorer († 1977)
• 1910 » James Henry Govier, English painter and illustrator († 1974)