Merricks Tree » Audrey Sybil Kathleen Nichols (1910-1997)

Birthday January 5, 1910

• The temperature on January 5, 1910 was between 4.9 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • April 16 » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
  • 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.
  • July 4 » The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured.
  • August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1908 » George Dolenz, Italian-American actor († 1963)
• 1909 » Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-American sculptor, painter, and photographer († 1995)
• 1909 » Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician and computer scientist († 1994)
• 1910 » Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and journalist († 1949)
• 1911 » Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor and screenwriter († 2001)