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Birthday June 1, 1909

• The temperature on June 1, 1909 was between 11.3 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (80%). 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 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
  • January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
  • February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
  • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Frank Whittle, English airman and engineer, developed the jet engine († 1996)
• 1907 » Jan Patočka, Czech philosopher († 1977)
• 1908 » Julie Campbell Tatham, American author († 1999)
• 1909 » Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovakian-Israeli philologist and linguist († 1971)
• 1910 » Gyula Kállai, Hungarian communist leader, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary († 1996)
• 1912 » Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, author, and mountaineer († 1987)