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Birthday November 4, 1910

• The temperature on November 4, 1910 was between 2.7 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (37%). 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 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.
  • 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 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
  • June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
  • 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).
  • October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1908 » Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer and photographer († 1997)
• 1909 » Bert Patenaude, American soccer player († 1974)
• 1909 » Evelyn Bryan Johnson, American colonel and pilot († 2012)
• 1909 » Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager († 1986)
• 1911 » Dixie Lee, American actress and singer († 1952)