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Birthday April 5, 1909

• The temperature on April 5, 1909 was between -2.1 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 4 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 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
  • 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.
  • August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Bette Davis, American actress († 1989)
• 1908 » Kurt Neumann, German director († 1958)
• 1909 » Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer, co-founded Eon Productions († 1996)
• 1909 » Erwin Wegner, German hurdler († 1945)
• 1909 » Giacomo Gentilomo, Italian film director and painter († 2001)
• 1909 » Károly Sós, Hungarian footballer and manager († 1991)