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Birthday January 5, 1910

• The temperature on January 5, 1910 was between 4.9 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. 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.
  • 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.
  • July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
  • September 12 » Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).
  • October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
  • November 20 » Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete († 1969)
• 1908 » George Dolenz, Italian-American actor († 1963)
• 1909 » Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-American sculptor, painter, and photographer († 1995)
• 1909 » Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician and computer scientist († 1994)
• 1910 » Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and journalist († 1949)
• 1911 » Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor and screenwriter († 2001)