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Birthday October 19, 1910

• The temperature on October 19, 1910 was between 7.5 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). 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 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
  • 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 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 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader and composer († 1962)
• 1908 » Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer († 1981)
• 1909 » Marguerite Perey, French physicist and academic († 1975)
• 1910 » Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher († 1980)
• 1910 » Shunkichi Hamada, Japanese field hockey player († 2009)
• 1910 » Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)