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Birthday January 20, 1906

• The temperature on January 20, 1906 was between 0.7 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
  • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
  • June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
  • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Kevin Barry, Irish Republican Army volunteer († 1920)
• 1902 » Leon Ames, American actor († 1993)
• 1906 » Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate († 1975)
• 1907 » Paula Wessely, Austrian actress and producer († 2000)
• 1908 » Fleur Cowles, American author and illustrator († 2009)
• 1909 » Gōgen Yamaguchi, Japanese martial artist († 1989)