Genealogy Van Raam » Jannigje Bartels (1909-)

Birthday February 10, 1909

• The average temperature on February 10, 1909 was 1.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • March 10 » By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
  • 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.
  • August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Walter A. Brown, American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics († 1964)
• 1906 » Lon Chaney Jr., American actor († 1973)
• 1907 » Anthony Cottrell, New Zealand rugby player († 1988)
• 1908 » Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator († 2000)
• 1909 » Min Thu Wun, Burmese poet, scholar, and politician († 2004)
• 1910 » Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate († 1969)