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Birthday February 13, 1906

• The temperature on February 13, 1906 was between -2.9 and 3.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
  • April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
  • September 1 » The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
  • September 12 » The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
  • December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Harold Lasswell, American political scientist and theorist († 1978)
• 1903 » Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author († 1989)
• 1903 » Georgy Beriev, Georgian-Russian engineer, founded the Beriev Aircraft Company († 1979)
• 1906 » Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher and author († 1994)
• 1907 » Katy de la Cruz, Filipino-American singer and actress († 2004)
• 1910 » William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)