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Birthday October 14, 1910

• The temperature on October 14, 1910 was between 3.3 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
  • June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
  • July 4 » The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured.
  • October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
  • October 14 » English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
  • 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

• 1907 » Allan Jones, American actor and singer († 1992)
• 1909 » Bernd Rosemeyer, German racing driver († 1938)
• 1909 » Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter and producer († 1996)
• 1909 » Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander († 2000)
• 1910 » John Wooden, American basketball player and coach († 2010)
• 1911 » Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1990)