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Birthday February 13, 1911

• The temperature on February 13, 1911 was between -2.8 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.
  • September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
  • October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
  • October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
  • 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 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1911 » Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Indian-Pakistani poet and journalist († 1984)
• 1911 » Jean Muir, American actress and educator († 1996)
• 1912 » Harald Riipalu, Russian-Estonian commander († 1961)
• 1912 » Margaretta Scott, English actress († 2005)
• 1913 » Khalid of Saudi Arabia († 1982)