Family tree Jan Werkman » Arnoldus Diekema (1911-)

Birthday February 7, 1911

• The temperature on February 7, 1911 was between -3 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • May 21 » President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
  • August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
  • September 29 » Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
  • November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
  • December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor († 1983)
• 1908 » Manmath Nath Gupta, Indian journalist and author († 2000)
• 1909 » Amedeo Guillet, Italian soldier († 2010)
• 1909 » Hélder Câmara, Brazilian archbishop († 1999)
• 1912 » Russell Drysdale, English-Australian painter († 1981)
• 1915 » Teoctist Arăpașu, Romanian patriarch († 2007)