Van Lerberghe genealogy » 'René' Edouard Maria Gaston Alfons SUETENS (1910-)

Birthday January 3, 1910

• The temperature on January 3, 1910 was between 7.1 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 16 » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
  • September 12 » Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).
  • September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
  • October 15 » Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
  • October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist and conductor († 2000)
• 1910 » Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player and manager († 2000)
• 1911 » John Sturges, American director and producer († 1992)
• 1912 » Armand Lohikoski, American-Finnish actor, director, and screenwriter († 2005)
• 1912 » Federico Borrell García, Spanish soldier († 1936)
• 1912 » Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician († 2002)