Database Van Broekhoven » Johanna Wilhelmina Catharina Maria Gram (1909-)

Birthday July 22, 1909

• The temperature on July 22, 1909 was between 14.1 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1909 » Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver († 2000)
• 1909 » Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress († 2014)
• 1910 » Ruthie Tompson, American animator and artist
• 1913 » Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader († 1995)
• 1915 » Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat († 2000)