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Birthday June 25, 1909

• The temperature on June 25, 1909 was between 10.8 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). 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.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • 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 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer and academic († 1976)
• 1907 » J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1908 » Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic († 2000)
• 1911 » William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1980)
• 1912 » William T. Cahill, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey († 1996)
• 1913 » Cyril Fletcher, English actor and screenwriter († 2005)