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Birthday January 10, 1909

• The temperature on January 10, 1909 was between -0.8 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
  • February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Gordon Kidd Teal, American engineer and inventor († 2003)
• 1908 » Paul Henreid, Italian-American actor and director († 1992)
• 1910 » Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer († 1976)
• 1911 » Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist († 2013)
• 1911 » Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist († 2004)
• 1912 » Maria Mandl, Austrian SS guard († 1948)