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Birthday September 1, 1910

• The temperature on September 1, 1910 was between 9.1 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
  • August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
  • 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.
  • December 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1907 » Walter Reuther, American union leader, founded United Auto Workers († 1970)
• 1908 » Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer († 1980)
• 1908 » Lou Kenton, Jewish-English soldier and potter († 2012)
• 1909 » E. Herbert Norman, Canadian historian and diplomat († 1957)
• 1913 » Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator († 1979)