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Birthday September 10, 1905

• The temperature on September 10, 1905 was between 12.8 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • January 26 » The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
  • April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
  • September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
  • October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
  • November 12 » Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Cyril Connolly, English author and critic († 1974)
• 1904 » Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager († 2003)
• 1904 » Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician († 1972)
• 1906 » Karl Wien, German geographer, academic, and mountaineer († 1937)
• 1907 » Alva R. Fitch, American general († 1989)
• 1907 » Dorothy Hill, Australian geologist and palaeontologist († 1997)