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Birthday March 18, 1909

• The temperature on March 18, 1909 was between -3.4 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
  • 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 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 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist († 1997)
• 1908 » Loulou Gasté, French composer († 1995)
• 1909 » C. Walter Hodges, English author and illustrator († 2004)
• 1909 » Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery († 2007)
• 1911 » Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor († 1967)
• 1912 » Art Gilmore, American voice actor and announcer († 2010)