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Birthday January 12, 1909

• The temperature on January 12, 1909 was between 1.7 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
  • 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.
  • August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
  • 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.
  • 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 » Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French historian, philosopher, and academic († 1995)
• 1907 » Sergei Korolev, Russian colonel and engineer († 1966)
• 1908 » Clement Hurd, American illustrator († 1988)
• 1908 » Jean Delannoy, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1910 » Luise Rainer, German-English actress († 2014)
• 1910 » Patsy Kelly, American actress and comedian († 1981)