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Birthday February 9, 1910

• The temperature on February 9, 1910 was between -0.4 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
  • May 6 » George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
  • August 29 » The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
  • September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
  • October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
  • November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress, singer, and dancer († 1955)
• 1909 » Dean Rusk, American colonel and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State († 1994)
• 1909 » Heather Angel, English-American actress († 1986)
• 1910 » Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1911 » William Orlando Darby, American general († 1945)
• 1912 » Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna († 1968)