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Birthday August 10, 1910

• The temperature on August 10, 1910 was between 12.1 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 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 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
  • June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
  • July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Rica Erickson, Australian botanist, historian, and author († 2009)
• 1909 » Leo Fender, American businessman, founded Fender Musical Instruments Corporation († 1991)
• 1909 » Richard J. Hughes, American politician, 45th Governor of New Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court († 1992)
• 1910 » Guy Mairesse, French race car driver († 1954)
• 1911 » A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian and author († 1993)
• 1911 » Leonidas Andrianopoulos, Greek footballer († 2011)