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Birthday March 20, 1910

• The temperature on March 20, 1910 was between -3.3 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • 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 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
  • 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.
  • August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
  • October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
  • 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

• 1907 » Hugh MacLennan, Canadian author and educator († 1990)
• 1908 » Michael Redgrave, English actor and director († 1985)
• 1910 » Erwin Blask, German hammer thrower († 1999)
• 1911 » Alfonso García Robles, Mexican lawyer and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1912 » Ralph Hauenstein, American businessman and philanthropist († 2016)
• 1913 » Nikolai Stepulov, Russian-Estonian boxer († 1968)