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Birthday February 2, 1909

• The temperature on February 2, 1909 was between -3.5 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. The average windspeed was 4 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 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
  • 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.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • 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.
  • December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist and philosopher († 1982)
• 1908 » Wes Ferrell, American baseball player and manager († 1976)
• 1909 » Frank Albertson, American actor († 1964)
• 1911 » Jack Pizzey, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Queensland († 1968)
• 1912 » Burton Lane, American songwriter and composer († 1997)
• 1912 » Millvina Dean, English civil servant and cartographer († 2009)