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Birthday June 30, 1909

• The temperature on June 30, 1909 was between 10.8 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
  • February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
  • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician († 1950)
• 1908 » Luigi Rovere, Italian film producer († 1996)
• 1908 » Rob Nieuwenhuys, Dutch writer († 1999)
• 1908 » Winston Graham, English author († 2003)
• 1909 » Juan Bosch, 43rd President of the Dominican Republic († 2001)
• 1911 » Czesław Miłosz, Polish novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)