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Birthday February 9, 1909

• The temperature on February 9, 1909 was between -4.8 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • 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 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian mathematician and academic († 2003)
• 1907 » Trường Chinh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam († 1988)
• 1909 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress, singer, and dancer († 1955)
• 1909 » Dean Rusk, American colonel and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State († 1994)
• 1909 » Heather Angel, English-American actress († 1986)
• 1910 » Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)