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Birthday March 8, 1910

• The temperature on March 8, 1910 was between -0.4 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • April 29 » The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
  • 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.
  • September 12 » Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).
  • November 23 » Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Beatrice Shilling, English motorcycle racer and engineer († 1990)
• 1909 » Paula Strasberg, American actress and acting coach († 1966)
• 1910 » Claire Trevor, American actress († 2000)
• 1911 » Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist and composer († 2000)
• 1912 » Meldrim Thomson, Jr., American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire († 2001)
• 1912 » Preston Smith, American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas († 2003)