Dreyer Tree » Lovisa Wilhelmina Dreyer (1910-)

Birthday June 13, 1910

• The temperature on June 13, 1910 was between 12.9 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • April 29 » The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
  • June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
  • July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
  • 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.
  • October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala († 1998)
• 1910 » Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright († 1999)
• 1910 » Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association († 2001)
• 1910 » Mary Wickes, American actress († 1995)
• 1911 » Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1911 » Maurice Copeland, American actor († 1985)