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Birthday February 10, 1914

• The temperature on February 10, 1914 was between 3.7 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
  • January 9 » The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
  • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • August 24 » World War I: German troops capture Namur.
  • November 23 » Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
  • December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator († 2000)
• 1909 » Min Thu Wun, Burmese poet, scholar, and politician († 2004)
• 1910 » Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate († 1969)
• 1914 » Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor († 2001)
• 1915 » Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor († 2016)
• 1919 » Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece († 2014)