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Birthday April 4, 1906

• The temperature on April 4, 1906 was between -0.4 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
  • May 22 » The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
  • December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, French journalist and author († 1969)
• 1905 » Erika Nõva, Estonian architect and engineer († 1987)
• 1905 » Eugène Bozza, French composer and conductor († 1991)
• 1906 » Bea Benaderet, Turkish-Jewish Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress († 1968)
• 1906 » John Cameron Swayze, American journalist († 1995)
• 1907 » Robert Askin, Australian sergeant and politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales († 1981)