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Birthday September 10, 1909

• The temperature on September 10, 1909 was between 9.7 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
  • 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 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • 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.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Karl Wien, German geographer, academic, and mountaineer († 1937)
• 1907 » Alva R. Fitch, American general († 1989)
• 1907 » Dorothy Hill, Australian geologist and palaeontologist († 1997)
• 1908 » Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania († 2004)
• 1908 » Raymond Scott, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 1994)
• 1908 » Waldo Rudolph Wedel, American archaeologist and author († 1996)