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Birthday September 25, 1909

• The temperature on September 25, 1909 was between 7.7 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
  • September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
  • 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.
  • 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

• 1906 » Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer († 1975)
• 1906 » Phyllis Pearsall, English painter, cartographer, and author († 1996)
• 1906 » Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist, and music critic († 1962)
• 1908 » Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1910 » Ralph Jordan, American football player and coach († 1980)
• 1911 » Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago († 1981)