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Birthday March 1, 1910

• The temperature on March 1, 1910 was between 0.4 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
  • June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
  • October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
  • October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Eugene Esmonde, English lieutenant and pilot († 1942)
• 1909 » Winston Sharples, American pianist and composer († 1978)
• 1910 » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2002)
• 1910 » David Niven, English soldier and actor († 1983)
• 1912 » Boris Chertok, Polish-Russian engineer and academic († 2011)
• 1912 » Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal († 2003)