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Birthday June 11, 1909

• The temperature on June 11, 1909 was between 5.9 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
  • 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.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
  • December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint († 1919)
• 1908 » Karl Hein, German hammer thrower († 1982)
• 1909 » Natascha Artin Brunswick, German-American mathematician and photographer († 2003)
• 1910 » Carmine Coppola, American flute player and composer († 1991)
• 1910 » Jacques Cousteau, French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung († 1997)
• 1912 » James Algar, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1998)