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Birthday March 28, 1910

• The temperature on March 28, 1910 was between -1.5 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 16 » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
  • 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.
  • October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
  • October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer († 1981)
• 1910 » Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American librarian and art collector († 2001)
• 1910 » Ingrid of Sweden, († 2000)
• 1910 » Jimmie Dodd, American actor and singer-songwriter († 1964)
• 1911 » Consalvo Sanesi, Italian race car driver († 1998)
• 1912 » A. Bertram Chandler, English-Australian author († 1984)