Kennedy Family Tree » Alice Winifred Kennedy (1909-1996)

Birthday November 19, 1909

• The temperature on November 19, 1909 was between -5.3 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged -1.0 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
  • November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Franz Schädle, German SS officer († 1945)
• 1907 » Jack Schaefer, American author († 1991)
• 1909 » Peter Drucker, Austrian-American theorist, educator, and author († 2005)
• 1910 » Adrian Conan Doyle, English racing driver, author, and explorer († 1970)
• 1912 » Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American bishop († 2015)
• 1912 » George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)