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Birthday May 16, 1910

• The temperature on May 16, 1910 was between 6.6 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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).
  • May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
  • June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
  • July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
  • August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
  • November 23 » Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Luigi Villoresi, Italian race car driver († 1997)
• 1909 » Margaret Sullavan, American actress and singer († 1960)
• 1910 » Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter and educator († 1972)
• 1910 » Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator († 2014)
• 1910 » Olga Bergholz, Russian poet and author († 1975)
• 1912 » Studs Terkel, American historian and author († 2008)