Kelson Burbank Genealogy » Hollis Hervy Seale (1909-)

Birthday June 1, 1909

• The temperature on June 1, 1909 was between 11.8 °C and 28.0 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
  • February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
  • May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
  • June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
  • 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 » Frank Whittle, English airman and engineer, developed the jet engine († 1996)
• 1907 » Jan Patočka, Czech philosopher († 1977)
• 1908 » Julie Campbell Tatham, American author († 1999)
• 1909 » Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovakian-Israeli philologist and linguist († 1971)
• 1910 » Gyula Kállai, Hungarian communist leader, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary († 1996)
• 1912 » Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, author, and mountaineer († 1987)