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Birthday January 10, 1910

• The temperature on January 10, 1910 was between 6.7 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • April 29 » The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
  • 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.
  • November 23 » Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
  • December 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Gordon Kidd Teal, American engineer and inventor († 2003)
• 1908 » Paul Henreid, Italian-American actor and director († 1992)
• 1910 » Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer († 1976)
• 1911 » Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist († 2013)
• 1911 » Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist († 2004)
• 1912 » Maria Mandl, Austrian SS guard († 1948)