Genealogy Bovenschen, Looijenga, Van Gelderen en Van Donk » Louisa Johanna Maria Joosten (1909-)

Birthday September 12, 1909

• The temperature on September 12, 1909 was between 12.0 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • 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.
  • August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » István Horthy, Hungarian fighter pilot and deputy regent († 1942)
• 1904 » John Courtney Murray, American priest and theologian († 1967)
• 1905 » Linda Agostini, English-Australian murder victim († 1934)
• 1907 » Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright († 1963)
• 1909 » Donald MacDonald, Canadian trade union leader and politician († 1986)
• 1913 » Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper († 1980)