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Birthday July 2, 1907

• The temperature on July 2, 1907 was between 6.1 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • September 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • September 29 » The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
  • October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • October 21 » The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Alec Douglas-Home, English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1995)
• 1904 » René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt († 1996)
• 1906 » Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1906 » Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler († 1996)
• 1906 » Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner († 1993)
• 1908 » Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd Solicitor General of the United States († 1993)