Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Wilhelm Jacobus PRETORIUS (1909-)

Birthday December 13, 1909

• The temperature on December 13, 1909 was between -1.3 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
  • August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark († 1968)
• 1908 » Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist († 1958)
• 1908 » Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Brazilian historian and activist († 1995)
• 1908 » Van Heflin, American actor († 1971)
• 1911 » Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter († 1972)
• 1911 » Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)