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Birthday May 31, 1910

• The temperature on May 31, 1910 was between 9.4 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
  • May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
  • 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.
  • October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
  • November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
  • November 20 » Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Don Ameche, American actor († 1993)
• 1909 » Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player († 2000)
• 1911 » Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2010)
• 1912 » Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American experimental physicist († 1997)
• 1914 » Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer and educator († 2006)
• 1916 » Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter († 1997)