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Birthday May 30, 1911

• The temperature on May 30, 1911 was between 13.6 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
  • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
  • 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.
  • December 14 » Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
  • December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Harry Bernstein, English-American journalist and author († 2011)
• 1912 » Erich Bagge, German physicist and academic († 1996)
• 1912 » Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor († 1980)
• 1912 » Joseph Stein, American playwright and author († 2010)
• 1912 » Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1912 » Millicent Selsam, American author and academic († 1996)