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Birthday July 15, 1909

• The temperature on July 15, 1909 was between 13.7 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
  • May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
  • July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1906 » R. S. Mugali, Indian poet and academic († 1993)
• 1906 » Rudolf Uhlenhaut, English-German engineer († 1989)
• 1909 » Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon († 1992)
• 1911 » Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, English geographer and politician, Secretary of State for Air († 1994)