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Birthday November 26, 1910

• The temperature on November 26, 1910 was between -5.9 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged -2.0 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
  • 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).
  • February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
  • July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
  • October 14 » English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
  • November 23 » Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Charles Forte, Baron Forte, Italian-Scottish businessman, founded Forte Group († 2007)
• 1909 » Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright and critic († 1994)
• 1909 » Frances Dee, American actress and singer († 2004)
• 1909 » Fritz Buchloh, German footballer and manager († 1998)
• 1910 » Cyril Cusack, South African-born Irish actor († 1993)
• 1911 » Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-American chess player and author († 1992)