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Birthday March 27, 1910

• The temperature on March 27, 1910 was between -0.8 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
  • May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
  • July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
  • August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
  • September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
  • October 14 » English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Ben Webster, American saxophonist († 1973)
• 1909 » Golo Mann, German historian and author († 1994)
• 1909 » Valery Marakou, Belarusian poet and translator († 1937)
• 1910 » Ai Qing, Chinese poet and author († 1996)
• 1911 » Veronika Tushnova, Russian poet and physician († 1965)
• 1912 » James Callaghan, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 2005)