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Birthday February 4, 1909

• The temperature on February 4, 1909 was between 5.5 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
  • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
  • 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 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto († 1997)
• 1906 » Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian († 1945)
• 1906 » Letitia Dunbar-Harrison, Irish librarian († 1994)
• 1908 » Julian Bell, English poet and academic († 1937)
• 1912 » Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-American conductor († 1993)
• 1912 » Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian banker and politician, Norwegian Minister of Industry († 1999)