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Birthday September 7, 1909

• The temperature on September 7, 1909 was between 10.7 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
  • 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 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • 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 » Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Turkish composer and musicologist († 1991)
• 1908 » Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader († 1994)
• 1908 » Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and educator († 2008)
• 1908 » Paul Brown, American football player and coach († 1991)
• 1909 » Elia Kazan, Greek-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2003)
• 1911 » Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian police officer and politician, Head of State of Bulgaria († 1998)