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Birthday November 13, 1909

• The temperature on November 13, 1909 was between 1.7 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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.
  • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
  • 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

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• 1909 » Vincent Apap, Maltese sculptor († 2003)
• 1910 » Pat Reid, Indian-English soldier and author († 1990)
• 1910 » William Bradford Huie, American journalist and author († 1986)
• 1911 » Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager († 2006)