Family tree Bredewout/Bredewold » Steven Johannes van den Berg (1909-)

Birthday January 4, 1909

• The temperature on January 4, 1909 was between 1.0 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
  • 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.
  • May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
  • July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » C. L. R. James, Trinidadian journalist and theorist († 1989)
• 1902 » John A. McCone, American businessman and politician, 6th Director of Central Intelligence († 1991)
• 1905 » Sterling Holloway, American actor († 1992)
• 1913 » Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler († 2007)
• 1916 » Lionel Newman, American pianist and composer († 1989)
• 1916 » Robert Parrish, American actor and director († 1995)