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Birthday March 19, 1910

• The temperature on March 19, 1910 was between -1.8 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (71%). 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.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
  • 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.
  • July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
  • November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Adolf Eichmann, German SS officer († 1962)
• 1906 » Clara Breed, American librarian and activist († 1994)
• 1909 » Louis Hayward, South African-born American actor († 1985)
• 1910 » Joseph Carroll, American general († 1991)
• 1912 » Hugh Watt, Australian-New Zealand engineer and politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1980)
• 1914 » Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician and theorist († 1981)