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Birthday February 15, 1910

• The temperature on February 15, 1910 was between -0.1 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
  • June 19 » The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
  • August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
  • October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Cesar Romero, American actor († 1994)
• 1907 » Jean Langlais, French organist and composer († 1991)
• 1908 » Sarto Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 38th Mayor of Montreal († 1980)
• 1909 » Miep Gies, Austrian-Dutch humanitarian, helped hide Anne Frank and her family († 2010)
• 1910 » Irena Sendler, Polish nurse and humanitarian, Righteous Gentile († 2008)
• 1912 » George Mikes, Jewish Hungarian-English journalist and author († 1987)