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Birthday November 4, 1906

• The temperature on November 4, 1906 was between 3.3 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
  • May 22 » The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
  • September 20 » The Cunard Line's RMSMauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
  • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
  • December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish engineer, technician, and academic († 1967)
• 1905 » Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet and translator († 2007)
• 1906 » Sterling North, American author and critic († 1974)
• 1908 » Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1908 » Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer and photographer († 1997)
• 1909 » Evelyn Bryan Johnson, American colonel and pilot († 2012)