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Birthday September 10, 1909

• The temperature on September 10, 1909 was between 9.7 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
  • March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1907 » Alva R. Fitch, American general († 1989)
• 1907 » Dorothy Hill, Australian geologist and palaeontologist († 1997)
• 1908 » Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania († 2004)
• 1908 » Raymond Scott, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 1994)
• 1908 » Waldo Rudolph Wedel, American archaeologist and author († 1996)