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Birthday March 18, 1906

• The temperature on March 18, 1906 was between 3.8 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
  • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
  • June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
  • August 5 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist († 1996)
• 1904 » Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet and author († 1926)
• 1905 » Robert Donat, English actor († 1958)
• 1905 » Thomas Townsend Brown, American physicist and engineer († 1985)
• 1907 » John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist († 1997)
• 1908 » Loulou Gasté, French composer († 1995)