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Birthday December 5, 1908

• The temperature on December 5, 1908 was between -0.2 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • June 18 » The University of the Philippines is established.
  • June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
  • July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
  • August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
  • September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
  • December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (d.1949)
• 1905 » Gus Mancuso, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster († 1984)
• 1905 » Otto Preminger, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer († 1986)
• 1907 » Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic († 1993)
• 1907 » Lin Biao, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1971)
• 1910 » Abraham Polonsky, American director and screenwriter († 1999)