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Birthday February 19, 1909

• The temperature on February 19, 1909 was between -3.1 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
  • February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • 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.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Havank, Dutch journalist and author († 1964)
• 1911 » Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress († 1979)
• 1912 » Dorothy Janis, American actress († 2010)
• 1912 » Saul Chaplin, American composer († 1997)
• 1913 » Frank Tashlin, American animator and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1913 » Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza († 2007)