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Birthday November 17, 1909

• The average temperature on November 17, 1909 was 2.8 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
  • 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.
  • November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
  • December 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Astrid of Sweden († 1935)
• 1905 » Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor († 1967)
• 1906 » Rollie Stiles, American baseball player († 2007)
• 1906 » Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company († 1991)
• 1907 » Israel Regardie, English occultist and author († 1985)
• 1911 » Christian Fouchet, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of the Interior († 1974)