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Birthday December 21, 1909

• The temperature on December 21, 1909 was between -3.6 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (69%). 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.
  • February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
  • November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
  • 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

• 1905 » Anthony Powell, English author († 2000)
• 1905 » Käte Fenchel, German mathematician († 1983)
• 1909 » Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese journalist and author († 1992)
• 1911 » Josh Gibson, American baseball player († 1947)
• 1913 » Arnold Friberg, American illustrator and painter († 2010)
• 1914 » Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist and virologist († 2010)