FutureHistory » Maria Coleta "Maria" (Maria Coleta "Maria") de Weerdt (1909-1984)

Birthday November 7, 1909

• The temperature on November 7, 1909 was between -2.4 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1906 » Eugene Carson Blake, American minister and educator († 1985)
• 1908 » Marijac, French author and illustrator († 1994)
• 1909 » Norman Krasna, American director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright († 1984)
• 1909 » Ruby Hurley, American activist († 1980)
• 1912 » Victor Beaumont, German-English actor († 1977)