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Birthday January 14, 1909

• The temperature on January 14, 1909 was between 4.0 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • 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.
  • 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

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• 1909 » Brenda Forbes, English-American actress († 1996)
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