Wurm Family Tree » Joseph Allen Prell (1905-1980)

Birthday September 11, 1905

• The temperature on September 11, 1905 was between 11.8 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
  • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
  • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
  • October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
  • November 12 » Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
  • December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1903 » Stephen Etnier, American lieutenant and painter († 1984)
• 1903 » Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher († 1969)
• 1904 » Karl Plutus, Estonian lawyer and jurist († 2010)
• 1907 » Lev Oborin, Russian pianist and educator († 1974)
• 1908 » Alvar Lidell, English journalist († 1981)