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Birthday February 25, 1909

• The temperature on February 25, 1909 was between -4.5 °C and 0.6 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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.
  • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
  • September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
  • November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
  • 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

• 1905 » Perry Miller, American historian, author, and academic († 1963)
• 1906 » Mary Coyle Chase, American journalist and playwright; author of Harvey († 1981)
• 1907 » Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet († 1948)
• 1908 » Frank G. Slaughter, American physician and author († 2001)
• 1908 » Mary Locke Petermann, cellular biochemist († 1975)
• 1910 » Millicent Fenwick, American journalist and politician († 1992)