Family tree Gelderman » Antonia Johanna Maria Waarsenburg (1910-)

Birthday May 15, 1910

• The temperature on May 15, 1910 was between 9.3 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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.
  • January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
  • March 1 » The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
  • April 16 » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
  • July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
  • 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 » Clara Solovera, Chilean singer-songwriter († 1992)
• 1909 » James Mason, English actor, producer, and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1910 » Constance Cummings, British-based American actress († 2005)
• 1911 » Herta Oberheuser, German physician († 1978)
• 1911 » Max Frisch, Swiss playwright and novelist († 1991)
• 1912 » Arthur Berger, American composer and educator († 2003)