Family tree Klavers » Margje Guichelaar (1909-)

Birthday December 29, 1909

• The temperature on December 29, 1909 was between 3.6 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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.
  • January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
  • August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Kuvempu, Indian author and poet († 1994)
• 1908 » Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author († 1993)
• 1908 » Magnus Pyke, English scientist and author († 1992)
• 1910 » Ronald Coase, English-American economist, author, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1911 » Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and spy († 1988)
• 1914 » Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and academic († 1976)