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Birthday April 13, 1906

• The temperature on April 13, 1906 was between 10.0 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • April 7 » The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
  • April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
  • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » David Robinson, English businessman and philanthropist († 1987)
• 1905 » Rae Johnstone, Australian jockey († 1964)
• 1906 » Bud Freeman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader († 1991)
• 1906 » Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1907 » Harold Stassen, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota († 2001)
• 1909 » Eudora Welty, American short story writer and novelist († 2001)