Kennedy Family Tree » Nellie Clapton (1909-)

Birthday September 30, 1909

• The temperature on September 30, 1909 was between 7.1 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (71%). 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.
  • January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
  • 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.
  • 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 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1906 » Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress († 1996)
• 1908 » David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator († 1974)
• 1910 » Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain († 1962)
• 1911 » Gustave Gilbert, American psychologist († 1977)
• 1912 » Kenny Baker, American singer and actor († 1985)