Stewart/Humm Family Tree » Dorothy Muriel Humm (1910-1980)

Birthday July 23, 1910

• The temperature on July 23, 1910 was between 12.0 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • 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.
  • September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
  • October 15 » Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
  • October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • November 21 » Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist († 1931)
• 1906 » Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1912 » M. H. Abrams, American author, critic, and academic († 2015)
• 1912 » Michael Wilding, English actor († 1979)
• 1913 » Michael Foot, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Employment († 2010)
• 1914 » Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter (d.2010)