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Birthday April 10, 1905

• The temperature on April 10, 1905 was between 4.5 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
  • May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
  • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
  • September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
  • October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
  • November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Arnold Orville Beckman, American chemist, inventor, and philanthropist († 2004)
• 1901 » Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, Indian economist († 1971)
• 1903 » Clare Turlay Newberry, American author and illustrator († 1970)
• 1906 » Steve Anderson, American hurdler († 1988)
• 1910 » Helenio Herrera, Argentinian footballer and manager († 1997)
• 1910 » Margaret Clapp, American scholar and academic († 1974)