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Birthday February 15, 1910

• The temperature on February 15, 1910 was between 0.2 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
  • 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.
  • September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
  • October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
  • 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 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Cesar Romero, American actor († 1994)
• 1907 » Jean Langlais, French organist and composer († 1991)
• 1908 » Sarto Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 38th Mayor of Montreal († 1980)
• 1909 » Miep Gies, Austrian-Dutch humanitarian, helped hide Anne Frank and her family († 2010)
• 1910 » Irena Sendler, Polish nurse and humanitarian, Righteous Gentile († 2008)
• 1912 » George Mikes, Jewish Hungarian-English journalist and author († 1987)