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Birthday June 17, 1910

• The temperature on June 17, 1910 was between 10.0 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
  • August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
  • September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
  • November 23 » Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter († 1990)
• 1909 » Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota († 2004)
• 1909 » Ralph E. Winters, Canadian-American film editor († 2004)
• 1910 » George Hees, Canadian football player and politician († 1996)
• 1910 » Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1968)
• 1914 » John Hersey, American journalist and author († 1993)