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Birthday January 1, 1910

• The temperature on January 1, 1910 was between 1.1 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • 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 19 » The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
  • July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
  • September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
  • 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

• 1909 » Dana Andrews, American actor († 1992)
• 1909 » Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician († 1959)
• 1911 » Audrey Wurdemann, American poet and author († 1960)
• 1911 » Basil Dearden, English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1971)
• 1911 » Hank Greenberg, American baseball player († 1986)
• 1911 » Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist and educator († 2012)