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Birthday June 22, 1909

• The temperature on June 22, 1909 was between 10.5 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
  • August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • December 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Spanish aristocratic († 2002)
• 1909 » Katherine Dunham, American dancer and choreographer († 2006)
• 1909 » Mike Todd, American producer and manager († 1958)
• 1910 » Anne Ziegler, English singer († 2003)
• 1910 » John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Indian-English lieutenant and mountaineer († 1998)
• 1910 » Konrad Zuse, German computer scientist and engineer, invented the Z3 computer († 1995)