Sherren Family Tree » Arthur Leonard Plowman (1909-1990)

Birthday September 1, 1909

• The temperature on September 1, 1909 was between 7.5 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican lawyer and politician, 49th President of the Dominican Republic († 2002)
• 1907 » Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and politician († 1981)
• 1907 » Walter Reuther, American union leader, founded United Auto Workers († 1970)
• 1908 » Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer († 1980)
• 1908 » Lou Kenton, Jewish-English soldier and potter († 2012)
• 1909 » E. Herbert Norman, Canadian historian and diplomat († 1957)