Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Petrus Jacobus PRETORIUS (1910-)

Birthday August 26, 1910

• The temperature on August 26, 1910 was between 13.0 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
  • 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.
  • June 19 » The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
  • July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
  • 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).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar († 1967)
• 1909 » Eric Davies, South African cricketer and educator († 1976)
• 1909 » Gene Moore, American baseball player († 1978)
• 1909 » Jim Davis, American actor († 1981)
• 1910 » Mother Teresa, Macedonian-Indian nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1911 » Otto Binder, American author and screenwriter († 1974)