Genealogy Peter Tieke » Hinderikus Johannes Brugge (1909-)

Birthday July 11, 1909

• The temperature on July 11, 1909 was between 11.2 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
  • February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
  • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
  • December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Harry von Zell, American actor and announcer († 1981)
• 1906 » Herbert Wehner, German politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations († 1990)
• 1909 » Irene Hervey, American actress († 1998)
• 1909 » Jacques Clemens, Dutch catholic priest († 2018)
• 1910 » Sally Blane, American actress († 1997)
• 1911 » Erna Flegel, German Third Reich nurse († 2006)