Genealogy De Wit (stad Groningen) » Franciscus de Vries (1909-)

Birthday May 3, 1909

• The temperature on May 3, 1909 was between -0.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • 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.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist and author († 1975)
• 1906 » Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican journalist, author, and playwright († 2005)
• 1906 » Mary Astor, American actress († 1987)
• 1906 » René Huyghe, French historian and author († 1997)
• 1910 » Norman Corwin, American screenwriter and producer († 2011)
• 1912 » Virgil Fox, American organist and composer († 1980)