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Birthday November 22, 1906

• The temperature on November 22, 1906 was between 6.6 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. 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.
  • February 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
  • March 15 » Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
  • April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
  • September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
  • December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general († 1947)
• 1904 » Fumio Niwa, Japanese author († 2005)
• 1904 » Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1904 » Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and illustrator († 1957)
• 1906 » Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist († 1983)
• 1909 » Mikhail Mil, Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant († 1970)