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Birthday September 18, 1909

• The temperature on September 18, 1909 was between 10.0 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1907 » Leon Askin, Austrian actor († 2005)
• 1908 » Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic († 1996)
• 1910 » Bernard Kangro, Estonian journalist, author, and poet († 1994)
• 1910 » Josef Tal, Israeli pianist and composer († 2008)
• 1910 » Joseph F. Enright, American captain († 2000)