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Birthday August 13, 1906

• The temperature on August 13, 1906 was between 15.0 °C and 26.7 °C and averaged 21.2 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
  • June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
  • June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1906 » Art Shires, American baseball player and boxer († 1967)
• 1906 » Chuck Carroll, American football player and lawyer († 2003)
• 1907 » Basil Spence, Scottish architect, designed Coventry Cathedral († 1976)
• 1908 » Gene Raymond, American actor and pilot († 1998)