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Birthday September 28, 1910

• The temperature on September 28, 1910 was between 6.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • 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).
  • May 6 » George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
  • 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.
  • October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Bhagat Singh, Indian activist († 1931)
• 1907 » Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast and physician († 1997)
• 1909 » Al Capp, American author and illustrator († 1979)
• 1910 » Diosdado Macapagal, Filipino lawyer and politician, 9th President of the Philippines († 1997)
• 1910 » Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician († 1942)
• 1913 » Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator († 2007)