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Birthday June 7, 1910

• The temperature on June 7, 1910 was between 15.6 °C and 30.1 °C and averaged 22.3 °C. There was 29.3 mm of rain. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • 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.
  • September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1910 » Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer († 1990)
• 1910 » Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach († 1989)