Family tree familie Koek (Haarlem) » Petronella Johanna Uijtendaal (1909-)

Birthday December 19, 1909

• The temperature on December 19, 1909 was between -1.3 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
  • June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Giovanni Lurani, Italian race car driver, engineer, and journalist († 1995)
• 1905 » Irving Kahn, American businessman († 2015)
• 1906 » Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union († 1982)
• 1907 » Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-American boxer, actor, and golfer († 2004)
• 1909 » W. A. Criswell, American pastor and author († 2002)
• 1910 » Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright, and poet († 1986)