Family tree Timmers » Johanna Catharina Raaijmakers (1909-)

Birthday July 5, 1909

• The temperature on July 5, 1909 was between 8.4 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
  • September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
  • September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
  • 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.
  • November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Henri of Orléans, († 1999)
• 1908 » Lyman S. Ayres II, American businessman († 1996)
• 1910 » Georges Vedel, French lawyer and academic († 2002)
• 1911 » Endel Aruja, Estonian-Canadian physicist and academic († 2008)
• 1911 » Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta († 1980)
• 1911 » Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian footballer and coach († 1955)