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Birthday July 18, 1910

• The temperature on July 18, 1910 was between 15.4 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • March 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
  • April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
  • June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
  • September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
  • October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
  • October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Andrei Gromyko, Belarusian-Russian economist and politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1989)
• 1909 » Bishnu Dey, Indian poet, critic, and academic († 1982)
• 1909 » Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress († 1994)
• 1909 » Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan commander and politician, 1st President of Afghanistan († 1978)
• 1910 » Diptendu Pramanick, Indian businessman († 1989)
• 1910 » Mamadou Dia, Senegalese politician; 1st Prime Minister of Senegal († 2009)