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Birthday July 12, 1909

• The temperature on July 12, 1909 was between 11.2 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • 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.
  • September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Alain Cuny, French actor († 1994)
• 1908 » Milton Berle, American comedian and actor († 2002)
• 1909 » Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart († 1999)
• 1909 » Herbert Zim, American naturalist, author, and educator († 1994)
• 1909 » Joe DeRita, American actor († 1993)
• 1909 » Motoichi Kumagai, Japanese photographer and illustrator († 2010)