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Birthday October 19, 1909

• The temperature on October 19, 1909 was between 9.1 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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.
  • February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • 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.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader and composer († 1962)
• 1908 » Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer († 1981)
• 1909 » Marguerite Perey, French physicist and academic († 1975)
• 1910 » Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher († 1980)
• 1910 » Shunkichi Hamada, Japanese field hockey player († 2009)
• 1910 » Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)