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Birthday October 31, 1909

• The temperature on October 31, 1909 was between 3.9 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
  • December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Edgar Sampson, American musician and composer († 1973)
• 1908 » Muriel Duckworth, Canadian activist († 2009)
• 1912 » Dale Evans, American singer-songwriter and actress († 2001)
• 1912 » Ollie Johnston, American animator and voice actor († 2008)
• 1914 » John Hugenholtz, Dutch engineer and designer († 1995)
• 1915 » Jane Jarvis, American pianist and composer († 2010)