Van Lerberghe genealogy » Renée Gabrielle Léonie Raphaëlle van den CORPUT (1906-)

Birthday November 18, 1906

• The temperature on November 18, 1906 was between 5.7 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
  • August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
  • September 12 » The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
  • September 24 » Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot, further increasing racial segregation.
  • September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
  • November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, designed the mini car († 1988)
• 1906 » George Wald, American neurobiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1906 » Klaus Mann, German-American novelist, short story writer, and critic († 1949)
• 1906 » Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Turkish author and poet († 1954)
• 1907 » Compay Segundo, Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2003)
• 1907 » Gustav Nezval, Czech actor († 1998)