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Birthday December 11, 1909

• The temperature on December 11, 1909 was between -2.0 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 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.
  • 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.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Amon Göth, Austrian Nazi war criminal († 1946)
• 1908 » Elliott Carter, American composer and academic († 2012)
• 1908 » Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands († 1987)
• 1908 » Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2015)
• 1909 » Ronald McKie, Australian soldier, journalist, and author († 1991)
• 1910 » Mildred Cleghorn, Native American chairwoman and educator († 1997)