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Birthday August 14, 1909

• The temperature on August 14, 1909 was between 7.6 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 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 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
  • March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • 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

• 1910 » Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and producer († 1995)
• 1910 » Willy Ronis, French photographer († 2009)
• 1911 » Jan Koetsier, Dutch composer and conductor († 2006)
• 1911 » Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian spiritual leader, philosopher, and author († 2006)
• 1912 » Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic († 1985)
• 1913 » Hector Crawford, Australian director and producer († 1991)