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Birthday November 25, 1909

• The temperature on November 25, 1909 was between -0.3 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
  • 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

• 1905 » Samiha Ayverdi, Turkish mystic and author († 1993)
• 1906 » Alice Ambrose, American philosopher and logician († 2001)
• 1907 » John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot († 1938)
• 1908 » Natyaguru Nurul Momen, Bangladeshi playwright, author, educator, director and media personality († 1990)
• 1909 » P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator († 1986)
• 1911 » Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter and photographer († 1984)