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Birthday January 25, 1910

• The temperature on January 25, 1910 was between -0.2 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
  • June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
  • July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
  • October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
  • October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
  • October 15 » Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1908 » Hsieh Tung-min, Taiwanese politicians and Vice President of the Republic of China († 2001)
• 1910 » Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian, author, and politician, Estonian Minister of Education († 1984)
• 1913 » Huang Hua, Chinese translator and politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China († 2010)
• 1913 » Luis Marden, American photographer and journalist († 2003)
• 1913 » Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor († 1994)