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Birthday August 11, 1909

• The temperature on August 11, 1909 was between 9.3 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • 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 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
  • 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 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

• 1907 » Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer and lawyer († 1989)
• 1908 » Don Freeman, American author and illustrator († 1978)
• 1908 » Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher († 1999)
• 1909 » Uku Masing, Estonian philosopher and theologian († 1985)
• 1909 » Yūji Koseki, Japanese composer († 1989)
• 1911 » Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai field marshal and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand († 2004)