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Birthday April 9, 1913

• The temperature on April 9, 1913 was between 2.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • February 9 » A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
  • February 21 » Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
  • March 31 » The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
  • May 14 » Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
  • July 3 » Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
  • November 9 » The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Abraham A. Ribicoff, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services († 1998)
• 1912 » Lev Kopelev, Ukrainian-German author and academic († 1997)
• 1915 » Daniel Johnson Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Quebec († 1968)
• 1916 » Bill Leonard, American journalist († 1994)
• 1916 » Heinz Meyer, German Fallschirmjäger (paratrooper) during World War II († 1987)
• 1916 » Julian Dash, American swing music jazz tenor saxophonist († 1974)