Family tree Wernke » Geertje Smit (1910-)

Birthday June 24, 1910

• The temperature on June 24, 1910 was between 11.3 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
  • 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.
  • June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
  • October 15 » Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Betty Cavanna, American author († 2001)
• 1909 » Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor († 1978)
• 1909 » William Penney, Baron Penney, English mathematician and physicist († 1991)
• 1911 » Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist and academic († 2011)
• 1911 » Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver († 1995)
• 1911 » Portia White, Canadian opera singer († 1968)