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Birthday May 10, 1909

• The temperature on May 10, 1909 was between 2.2 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
  • 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

• 1903 » Otto Bradfisch, German economist, jurist, and SS officer († 1994)
• 1905 » Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player († 1972)
• 1908 » Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 2000)
• 1909 » Maybelle Carter, American autoharp player († 1978)
• 1911 » Bel Kaufman, American author and educator († 2014)
• 1915 » Denis Thatcher, English soldier and businessman, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 2003)