Kennedy Family Tree » George Henry Hawkins (1909-1983)

Birthday April 3, 1909

• The temperature on April 3, 1909 was between -3.4 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
  • April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
  • June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
  • August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
  • August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Stanislaw Ulam, Polish-American mathematician and academic († 1984)
• 1910 » Ted Hook, Australian public servant († 1990)
• 1911 » Michael Woodruff, English-Scottish surgeon and academic († 2001)
• 1911 » Nanette Bordeaux, Canadian-American actress († 1956)
• 1911 » Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner († 1980)
• 1912 » Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-English author († 1982)