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Birthday May 3, 1911

• The temperature on May 3, 1911 was between 7.6 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 4 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 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
  • May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • September 20 » The White Star Line's RMSOlympic collides with the British warship HMSHawke.
  • September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
  • 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 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1912 » May Sarton, American poet, novelist and memoirist († 1995)
• 1912 » Virgil Fox, American organist and composer († 1980)
• 1913 » William Inge, American playwright and novelist († 1973)
• 1914 » Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French journalist, author, and poet († 2018))
• 1915 » Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer, founded Stampede Wrestling († 2003)