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Birthday February 27, 1910

• The temperature on February 27, 1910 was between 1.4 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 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 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
  • June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
  • September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
  • October 15 » Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
  • November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer († 1995)
• 1910 » Joan Bennett, American actress († 1990)
• 1910 » Kelly Johnson, American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works († 1990)
• 1910 » Peter De Vries, American journalist and author († 1993)
• 1911 » Oscar Heidenstam, English bodybuilder († 1991)
• 1912 » Kusumagraj, Indian author, poet, and playwright († 1999)