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Birthday January 26, 1909

• The temperature on January 26, 1909 was between -9 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged -3.3 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
  • January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
  • 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 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Dimitrios Holevas, Greek priest and philologist († 2001)
• 1907 » Henry Cotton, English golfer († 1987)
• 1908 » Jill Esmond, English actress († 1990)
• 1908 » Rupprecht Geiger, German painter and sculptor († 2009)
• 1908 » Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist († 1997)
• 1910 » Jean Image, Hungarian-French animator, director, and screenwriter († 1989)