Buitekant & Scheffer Family Tree » Gladys Marion Lee (1909-)

Birthday September 4, 1909

• The temperature on September 4, 1909 was between 8.3 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • 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.
  • August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1907 » Reggie Nalder, Austrian-American actor († 1991)
• 1908 » Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer († 1999)
• 1908 » Richard Wright, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet († 1960)
• 1909 » Eduard Wirths, German physician († 1945)
• 1910 » Denis Tomlinson, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer († 1993)