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Birthday September 8, 1910

• The temperature on September 8, 1910 was between 8.3 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
  • March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
  • May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
  • July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
  • November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Andrei Kirilenko, Russian engineer and politician († 1990)
• 1907 » William Wentworth, Australian economist and politician, 11th Australian Minister for Human Services († 2003)
• 1909 » Józef Noji, Polish runner († 1943)
• 1910 » Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director († 1994)
• 1914 » Denys Lasdun, English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre († 2001)
• 1914 » Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople († 1991)