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Birthday June 12, 1909

• The temperature on June 12, 1909 was between 3.0 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • 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

• 1906 » Sandro Penna, Italian poet († 1977)
• 1908 » Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian broadcaster († 1988)
• 1908 » Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina and educator († 2010)
• 1908 » Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer († 1975)
• 1910 » Bill Naughton, Irish-English playwright and author († 1992)
• 1912 » Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1993)