1909 HARROWER, JAMES THOMSON (Statutory registers Births 789/ 69) Births in the Parish of Hawick in the County of Roxburgh 1909. James Thomson Harrower 1909 March Fourth 11h. 30m A.M. 16 Mansfield Road, Hawick M. Parents: George Lunn Harrower Baker (journeyman) (Domicil - Croft Street, Dalkeith) Margaret Turnbull Harrower M.S. Thomson m. 1905, June 16th, Hawick Inf. Margaret T. Harrower, Mother Croft Street, Dalkeith Registered 1909 March 18th, Hawick Chas. Hunter Assist. Registrar JT
1909 HARROWER, JAMES THOMSON (Statutory registers Deaths 683/ 86) Deaths in the Parish of Dalkeith in the County of Edinburgh 1909. James Thomson Harrower (Single) 1909 August Nineteenth 0h. 45m. A.M. Croft Street, Dalkeith M. 5 1/2 moths Parents: George Lunn Harrower Journeyman Baker Margaret Turnbull Harrower M.S. Thomson COD: Gastro: enteritis, 1 Day as Cert by Harold Ballantyne F.R.L.C.P.E. Inf. GL Harrower Father Present Registered 1909 August 20th, Dalkeith James Brownlee Registrar
The temperature on March 4, 1909 was between -5.3 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
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.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
Day of death August 19, 1909
The temperature on August 19, 1909 was between 13.1 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
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.
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.
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