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Birthday May 30, 1909

• The temperature on May 30, 1909 was between 9.4 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
  • February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
• 1908 » Mel Blanc, American voice actor († 1989)
• 1909 » Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader († 1986)
• 1909 » Freddie Frith, English motorcycle road racer († 1988)
• 1909 » Jacques Canetti, French music executive and talent agent († 1997)
• 1910 » Harry Bernstein, English-American journalist and author († 2011)