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Birthday January 21, 1909

• The temperature on January 21, 1909 was between -3.2 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -1 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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.
  • 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.
  • May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
  • November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Teofilo Spasojević, Serbian footballer († 1970)
• 1909 » Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and conductor († 2004)
• 1910 » Albert Rosellini, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Washington († 2011)
• 1910 » Hideo Shinojima, Japanese footballer († 1975)
• 1910 » Károly Takács, Hungarian shooter († 1976)
• 1910 » Rosa Kellner, German athlete († 1984)