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Birthday September 4, 1910

• The temperature on September 4, 1910 was between 9.9 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • April 16 » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
  • July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
  • July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
  • October 14 » English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
  • October 15 » Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
  • December 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1908 » Richard Wright, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet († 1960)
• 1909 » Eduard Wirths, German physician († 1945)
• 1910 » Denis Tomlinson, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer († 1993)
• 1912 » Alexander Liberman, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor († 1999)
• 1912 » Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator († 2004)