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Birthday May 23, 1909

• The temperature on May 23, 1909 was between 8.7 °C and 25.7 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
  • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
  • December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Hélène Boucher, French pilot († 1934)
• 1908 » John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1910 » Franz Kline, American painter and academic († 1962)
• 1910 » Hugh Casson, English architect and academic († 1999)
• 1910 » Margaret Wise Brown, American author and educator († 1952)
• 1910 » Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian († 1986)