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Birthday May 25, 1909

• The temperature on May 25, 1909 was between 8.6 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 17.8 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
  • February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma († 1995)
• 1908 » Theodore Roethke, American poet († 1963)
• 1909 » Alfred Kubel, German politician, 5th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony († 1999)
• 1912 » Dean Rockwell, American commander, wrestler, and coach († 2005)
• 1913 » Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot († 1957)
• 1913 » Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and producer († 1965)