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Birthday July 31, 1909

• The temperature on July 31, 1909 was between 12.6 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
  • November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Austrian theorist and author († 1999)
• 1911 » George Liberace, American violinist († 1983)
• 1912 » Bill Brown, Australian cricketer († 2008)
• 1912 » Irv Kupcinet, American football player and journalist († 2003)
• 1912 » Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2006)
• 1913 » Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player († 1984)