Descendants Heeres » Gerhardus Jacobus Dijkslag (1909-)

Birthday April 10, 1909

• The temperature on April 10, 1909 was between 0.4 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Steve Anderson, American hurdler († 1988)
• 1910 » Helenio Herrera, Argentinian footballer and manager († 1997)
• 1910 » Margaret Clapp, American scholar and academic († 1974)
• 1910 » Paul Sweezy, American economist and publisher, founded the Monthly Review († 2004)
• 1911 » Martin Denny, American pianist and composer († 2005)
• 1911 » Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs for France († 1998)