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Birthday December 24, 1909

• The temperature on December 24, 1909 was between -0.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
  • 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

• 1905 » Howard Hughes, American businessman, engineer, and pilot († 1976)
• 1906 » Franz Waxman, German-American composer and conductor († 1967)
• 1907 » I. F. Stone, American journalist and author († 1989)
• 1910 » Ellen Braumüller, German javelin thrower and triathlete († 1991)
• 1910 » Fritz Leiber, American author and poet († 1992)
• 1910 » Max Miedinger, Swiss typeface designer, created Helvetica († 1980)