Genealogy Van Raam » Trijntje Griffioen (1909-)

Birthday November 11, 1909

• The temperature on November 11, 1909 was between 3.7 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
  • July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
  • August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Brother Theodore, German-American monologuist and comedian († 2001)
• 1907 » Orestis Laskos, Greek director, screenwriter, and poet († 1992)
• 1909 » Piero Scotti, Italian race car driver († 1976)
• 1909 » Robert Ryan, American actor († 1973)
• 1911 » Roberto Matta, Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor († 2002)
• 1912 » Thomas C. Mann, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to El Salvador († 1999)