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Birthday March 30, 1910

• The temperature on March 30, 1910 was between -0.2 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
  • 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.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
  • 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.
  • November 23 » Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German general († 1994)
• 1910 » Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish soldier, mathematician, and academic († 1940)
• 1911 » Ekrem Akurgal, Turkish archaeologist and academic († 2002)
• 1912 » Alvin Hamilton, Canadian lieutenant and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Agriculture († 2004)
• 1912 » Jack Cowie, New Zealand cricketer († 1994)
• 1913 » Marc Davis, American animator († 2000)