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Birthday December 4, 1910

• The temperature on December 4, 1910 was between 1.1 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • June 25 » The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
  • September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
  • November 23 » Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
  • December 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1910 » Alex North, American composer and conductor († 1991)
• 1910 » R. Venkataraman, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th President of India († 2009)
• 1912 » Pappy Boyington, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient († 1988)
• 1913 » Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer († 1978)
• 1914 » Rudolf Hausner, Austrian painter and sculptor († 1995)