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Birthday August 18, 1910

• The temperature on August 18, 1910 was between 12.5 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (60%). 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.
  • 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.
  • March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
  • 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.
  • June 25 » The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, 139th Prime Minister of France († 1988)
• 1909 » Gérard Filion, Canadian businessman and journalist († 2005)
• 1910 » Herman Berlinski, Polish-American pianist, composer, and conductor († 2001)
• 1910 » Robert Winters, Canadian colonel, engineer, and politician, 26th Canadian Minister of Public Works († 1969)
• 1911 » Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist († 2015)
• 1911 » Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer († 1963)