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Birthday February 25, 1909

• The temperature on February 25, 1909 was between -4.5 °C and 0.6 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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.
  • January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
  • February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
  • August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
  • 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 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Perry Miller, American historian, author, and academic († 1963)
• 1906 » Mary Coyle Chase, American journalist and playwright; author of Harvey († 1981)
• 1907 » Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet († 1948)
• 1908 » Frank G. Slaughter, American physician and author († 2001)
• 1908 » Mary Locke Petermann, cellular biochemist († 1975)
• 1910 » Millicent Fenwick, American journalist and politician († 1992)