Van Thiel Berghuijs-Bachet » Elisabeth Maria van Thiel Berghuijs (1909-1909)

Birthday February 2, 1909

• The temperature on February 2, 1909 was between -3.7 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
  • 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 » Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist and philosopher († 1982)
• 1908 » Wes Ferrell, American baseball player and manager († 1976)
• 1909 » Frank Albertson, American actor († 1964)
• 1911 » Jack Pizzey, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Queensland († 1968)
• 1912 » Burton Lane, American songwriter and composer († 1997)
• 1912 » Millvina Dean, English civil servant and cartographer († 2009)