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Birthday December 29, 1909

• The temperature on December 29, 1909 was between 3.6 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 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.
  • February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
  • 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 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Kuvempu, Indian author and poet († 1994)
• 1908 » Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author († 1993)
• 1908 » Magnus Pyke, English scientist and author († 1992)
• 1910 » Ronald Coase, English-American economist, author, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1911 » Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and spy († 1988)
• 1914 » Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and academic († 1976)