The Brown Tree » Hilda Grace DARLING (1910-2007)

Birthday November 13, 1910

• The temperature on November 13, 1910 was between 3.7 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
  • October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
  • 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

• 1908 » C. Vann Woodward, American historian, author, and academic († 1999)
• 1909 » Vincent Apap, Maltese sculptor († 2003)
• 1910 » Pat Reid, Indian-English soldier and author († 1990)
• 1910 » William Bradford Huie, American journalist and author († 1986)
• 1911 » Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager († 2006)
• 1913 » V. Appapillai, Sri Lankan physicist and academic († 2001)