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Birthday April 20, 1910

• The temperature on April 20, 1910 was between 5.6 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Augoustinos Kantiotes, Greek bishop († 2010)
• 1907 » Miran Bux, Pakistani cricketer († 1991)
• 1908 » Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player, pianist, bandleader, and actor († 2002)
• 1910 » Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician († 1961)
• 1913 » Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor and poet († 1986)
• 1913 » Willi Hennig, German biologist and entomologist († 1976)