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Birthday July 10, 1906

• The temperature on July 10, 1906 was between 10.0 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
  • 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.)
  • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist († 1989)
• 1904 » Lili Damita, French-American actress († 1994)
• 1905 » Mildred Benson, American journalist and author († 2002)
• 1905 » Thomas Gomez, American actor († 1971)
• 1905 » Wolfram Sievers, German physician († 1948)
• 1907 » Blind Boy Fuller, American singer and guitarist († 1941)