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Birthday April 18, 1910

• The temperature on April 18, 1910 was between 5.4 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
  • June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
  • August 29 » The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
  • October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
  • 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.
  • 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

• 1905 » George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1905 » Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman († 1990)
• 1907 » Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor († 1995)
• 1911 » Ilario Bandini, Italian businessman and racing driver († 1992)
• 1911 » Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian Jewish-American physicist and academic († 2011)
• 1914 » Claire Martin, Canadian author († 2014)