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Birthday September 9, 1909

• The temperature on September 9, 1909 was between 7.5 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 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.
  • April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
  • September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1907 » Leon Edel, American author and critic († 1997)
• 1908 » Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and author († 1950)
• 1908 » Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral († 1945)
• 1911 » John Gorton, Australian lieutenant and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia († 2002)
• 1911 » Paul Goodman, American author, poet, and playwright († 1972)