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Birthday January 3, 1907

• The temperature on January 3, 1907 was between 1.8 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • January 29 » Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
  • April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
  • August 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
  • October 21 » The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
  • December 19 » Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Anna May Wong, American actress († 1961)
• 1905 » Dante Giacosa, Italian engineer († 1996)
• 1907 » Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director († 1986)
• 1909 » Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist and conductor († 2000)
• 1910 » Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player and manager († 2000)
• 1911 » John Sturges, American director and producer († 1992)