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Birthday January 8, 1906

• The temperature on January 8, 1906 was between 0.7 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
  • June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
  • September 24 » Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot, further increasing racial segregation.
  • September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Karl Brandt, German physician and SS officer († 1948)
• 1904 » Tampa Red, American guitarist and songwriter († 1981)
• 1905 » Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle († 1997)
• 1905 » Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and poet († 1988)
• 1906 » Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter († 1969)
• 1907 » Keizō Hayashi, Japanese general and civil servant († 1991)