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Birthday September 23, 1910

• The temperature on September 23, 1910 was between 9.3 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • 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.
  • May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
  • June 19 » The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
  • June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
  • November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Indian poet, academic, and politician († 1974)
• 1909 » Lorenc Antoni, Kosovo-Albanian composer and conductor († 1991)
• 1910 » Jakob Streit, Swiss anthroposophist and author († 2009)
• 1911 » Frank Moss, American lawyer and politician († 2003)
• 1912 » Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani linguist, author, and critic († 2005)
• 1912 » Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator († 1980)