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Birthday March 23, 1908

• The temperature on March 23, 1908 was between 2.2 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • February 1 » Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
  • April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
  • 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 17 » Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
  • September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Joan Crawford, American film actress († 1977)
• 1905 » Lale Andersen, German chanson singer-songwriter († 1972)
• 1907 » Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
• 1909 » Charles Werner, American cartoonist († 1997)
• 1910 » Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter († 1998)
• 1910 » Jerry Cornes, English runner, colonial officer and educator († 2001)