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Birthday November 10, 1909

• The temperature on November 10, 1909 was between 2.5 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (47%). 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.
  • January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
  • February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
  • July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Jane Froman, American actor and singer († 1980)
• 1908 » Charles Merritt, Canadian colonel and politician, Victoria Cross recipient († 2000)
• 1908 » Noemí Gerstein, Argentinian sculptor and illustrator († 1996)
• 1909 » Johnny Marks, American composer and songwriter († 1985)
• 1909 » Paweł Jasienica, Russian-Polish soldier, journalist, and historian († 1970)
• 1910 » Angelo Frattini, Italian sculptor († 1975)