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Birthday March 23, 1909

• The temperature on March 23, 1909 was between 2.3 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • 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.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
• 1909 » Charles Werner, American cartoonist († 1997)
• 1910 » Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter († 1998)
• 1910 » Jerry Cornes, English runner, colonial officer and educator († 2001)
• 1912 » Eleanor Cameron, Canadian-American author and critic († 1996)
• 1912 » Neil McCorkell, English-South African cricketer and coach († 2013)