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Birthday August 2, 1909

• The temperature on August 2, 1909 was between 10.5 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
  • April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Mary Hamman, American journalist and author († 1984)
• 1910 » Roger MacDougall, Scottish director, playwright, and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1911 » Ann Dvorak, American actress († 1979)
• 1912 » Håkon Stenstadvold, Norwegian painter, illustrator, and critic († 1977)
• 1912 » Palle Huld, Danish actor († 2010)
• 1912 » Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and author († 2001)