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Birthday June 27, 1910

• The temperature on June 27, 1910 was between 7.4 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (33%). 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.
  • March 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
  • 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.
  • October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1912 » E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat († 2016)
• 1913 » Elton Britt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1972)
• 1913 » Philip Guston, American painter and academic († 1980)