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Birthday April 3, 1909

• The temperature on April 3, 1909 was between -3.7 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
  • June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Stanislaw Ulam, Polish-American mathematician and academic († 1984)
• 1910 » Ted Hook, Australian public servant († 1990)
• 1911 » Michael Woodruff, English-Scottish surgeon and academic († 2001)
• 1911 » Nanette Bordeaux, Canadian-American actress († 1956)
• 1911 » Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner († 1980)
• 1912 » Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-English author († 1982)