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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.
  • July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
  • 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.

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)