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Birthday July 2, 1906

• The temperature on July 2, 1906 was between 8.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • February 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
  • March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
  • May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
  • June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
  • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
  • September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Alec Douglas-Home, English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1995)
• 1904 » René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt († 1996)
• 1906 » Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1906 » Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler († 1996)
• 1906 » Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner († 1993)
• 1908 » Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd Solicitor General of the United States († 1993)