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Birthday August 31, 1909

• The temperature on August 31, 1909 was between 8.4 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • 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 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • 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

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• 1907 » Valter Biiber, Estonian footballer († 1977)
• 1907 » William Shawn, American journalist († 1992)
• 1908 » William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer († 1981)
• 1909 » Ferenc Fejtő, Hungarian-French journalist and political scientist († 2008)