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Birthday January 19, 1910

• The temperature on January 19, 1910 was between 2.0 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
  • June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
  • August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
  • October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
  • October 14 » English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
  • 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

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• 1908 » Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist († 1971)
• 1908 » Ish Kabibble, American comedian and cornet player († 1994)
• 1911 » Choor Singh, Indian-Singaporean lawyer and judge († 2009)
• 1912 » Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1913 » Rex Ingamells, Australian author and poet († 1955)