Kennedy Family Tree » Madge May Spalding (1909-1989)

Birthday October 22, 1909

• The temperature on October 22, 1909 was between 5.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
  • August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Aurelio Baldor, Cuban mathematician and lawyer († 1978).
• 1906 » Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer and educator († 1970)
• 1907 » Günther Treptow, German tenor († 1981).
• 1907 » Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1967)
• 1908 » John Gould, American journalist and author († 2003).
• 1908 » José Escobar Saliente, Spanish cartoonist († 1994).