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Birthday August 16, 1907

• The temperature on August 16, 1907 was between 9.1 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (27%). 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • August 3 » Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
  • August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
  • September 30 » The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
  • October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
  • November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician († 1989)
• 1904 » Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1908 » Orlando Cole, American cellist and educator († 2010)
• 1908 » William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist († 2000)
• 1909 » Paul Callaway, American organist and conductor († 1995)
• 1910 » Gloria Blondell, American actress († 1986)