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Birthday January 24, 1910

• The temperature on January 24, 1910 was between -1.1 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • May 6 » George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
  • June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
  • July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia († 1979)
• 1907 » Jean Daetwyler, Swiss composer and musician († 1994)
• 1907 » Maurice Couve de Murville, French soldier and politician, Prime Minister of France († 1999)
• 1909 » Martin Lings, English author and scholar († 2005)
• 1910 » Doris Haddock, American political activist († 2010)
• 1912 » Frederick Ashworth, American admiral († 2005)