Family tree Wim Westphaal » Emiel Antoon Waeghe (1910-)

Birthday May 17, 1910

• The temperature on May 17, 1910 was between 11.9 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • 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).
  • 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 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
  • May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
  • October 15 » Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
  • 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

• 1909 » Julius Sumner Miller, American physicist and academic († 1987)
• 1911 » Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish-American model († 1992)
• 1911 » Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress († 1998)
• 1912 » Ace Parker, American baseball and football player († 2013)
• 1912 » Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician, 31st United States Solicitor General († 2004)
• 1912 » Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner, American inventor († 2006)