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Birthday February 27, 1909

• The temperature on February 27, 1909 was between -4.3 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -2.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
  • 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 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
  • August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Mildred Bailey, American singer († 1951)
• 1907 » Momčilo Đujić, Serbian-American priest and commander († 1999)
• 1910 » Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer († 1995)
• 1910 » Joan Bennett, American actress († 1990)
• 1910 » Kelly Johnson, American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works († 1990)
• 1910 » Peter De Vries, American journalist and author († 1993)