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Birthday September 5, 1909

• The temperature on September 5, 1909 was between 7.2 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
  • June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer and painter († 2019)
• 1908 » Joaquín Nin-Culmell, German-American pianist and composer († 2004)
• 1908 » Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist († 1973)
• 1909 » Archie Jackson, Scottish-Australian cricketer († 1933)
• 1909 » Bernard Delfont, Russian-English talent manager († 1994)
• 1909 » Hans Carste, German pianist and conductor († 1971)