Genealogy Jongewaard-Broekhuizen-Heinicke » Jan Helling (1910-)

Birthday December 18, 1910

• The temperature on December 18, 1910 was between 1.9 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
  • June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
  • 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 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1910 » Abe Burrows, American author, playwright, and director († 1985)
• 1910 » Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and umpire († 2010)
• 1911 » Jules Dassin, American-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1912 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general and pilot († 2002)