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Birthday August 28, 1910

• The temperature on August 28, 1910 was between 6.9 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 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.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
  • June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
  • September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author († 1996)
• 1910 » Morris Graves, American painter and academic († 2001)
• 1910 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1911 » Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO († 2002)
• 1913 » Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation († 2009)
• 1913 » Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright († 1995)