Allen Family Tree » Percy Joseph "Pete" Mitchell (1910-)

Birthday March 14, 1910

• The temperature on March 14, 1910 was between -1 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
  • June 25 » The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
  • July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
  • October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Ed Heinemann, American designer of military aircraft († 1991)
• 1908 » Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher and academic († 1961)
• 1908 » Philip Conrad Vincent, English engineer and businessman, founded Vincent Motorcycles († 1979)
• 1911 » Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origamist († 2005)
• 1912 » Cliff Bastin, English footballer († 1991)
• 1912 » Les Brown, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader († 2001)