Sherren Family Tree » Wilfred Jack Jacob (1909-1934)

Birthday August 19, 1909

• The temperature on August 19, 1909 was between 13.1 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
  • March 10 » By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
  • April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Indian historian, author, and scholar († 1979)
• 1907 » Thruston Ballard Morton, American soldier and politician († 1982)
• 1909 » Ronald King, New Zealand rugby player († 1988)
• 1910 » Quentin Bell, English historian and author († 1996)
• 1910 » Saint Alphonsa, first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church († 1946)
• 1911 » Anna Terruwe, Dutch psychiatrist and author († 2004)