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Birthday June 29, 1909

• The temperature on June 29, 1909 was between 5.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
  • August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
  • 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

• 1908 » Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower († 1963)
• 1908 » Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor († 1975)
• 1910 » Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player († 1993)
• 1910 » Frank Loesser, American composer and conductor († 1969)
• 1911 » Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress († 1995)
• 1911 » Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld († 2004)