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Birthday March 14, 1910

• The temperature on March 14, 1910 was between -1.1 °C and 9.0 °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.
  • February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
  • June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
  • September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
  • September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
  • 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.
  • November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

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)