Database Van Broekhoven » Cornelia Johanna van der Lee (1910-)

Birthday March 26, 1910

• The temperature on March 26, 1910 was between 1.2 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
  • March 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
  • May 6 » George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
  • June 19 » The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
  • 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.
  • September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Chips Rafferty, Australian actor († 1971)
• 1910 » K. W. Devanayagam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 10th Sri Lankan Minister of Justice († 2002)
• 1911 » Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2003)
• 1911 » J. L. Austin, English philosopher and academic († 1960)
• 1911 » Lennart Atterwall, Swedish javelin thrower († 2001)
• 1911 » Tennessee Williams, American playwright, and poet († 1983)