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Birthday November 28, 1909

• The temperature on November 28, 1909 was between -0.4 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Alberto Moravia, Italian journalist and author († 1990)
• 1907 » Rose Bampton, American soprano and educator († 2007)
• 1908 » Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-French anthropologist and ethnologist († 2009)
• 1908 » Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian educator and politician, 3rd Governor of Ondo State († 1997)
• 1910 » Elsie Quarterman, American ecologist and academic († 2014)
• 1911 » Václav Renč, Czech poet and playwright († 1973)