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Birthday July 25, 1910

• The temperature on July 25, 1910 was between 11.1 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 30.6 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
  • June 25 » The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
  • 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.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1906 » Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist and clarinet player († 1970)
• 1908 » Ambroise-Marie Carré, French priest and author († 2004)
• 1908 » Bill Bowes, English cricketer († 1987)
• 1908 » Jack Gilford, American actor († 1990)
• 1914 » Woody Strode, American football player and actor († 1994)