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Birthday January 22, 1909

• The temperature on January 22, 1909 was between -4.4 °C and -2.2 °C and averaged -3.2 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
  • February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
  • March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1908 » Prince Oana, American baseball player and manager († 1976)
• 1909 » Ann Sothern, American actress and singer († 2001)
• 1909 » Martha Norelius, Swedish-born American swimmer († 1955)
• 1909 » Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican racing driver, polo player, and diplomat († 1965)
• 1909 » U Thant, Burmese educator and diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary-General († 1974)