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Birthday September 18, 1910

• The temperature on September 18, 1910 was between 9.7 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
  • 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).
  • September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
  • November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic († 1996)
• 1910 » Bernard Kangro, Estonian journalist, author, and poet († 1994)
• 1910 » Josef Tal, Israeli pianist and composer († 2008)
• 1910 » Joseph F. Enright, American captain († 2000)
• 1911 » Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist and politician († 1995)
• 1911 » Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player († 1976)