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Birthday December 23, 1911

• The temperature on December 23, 1911 was between 1.3 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
  • March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
  • March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
  • May 9 » The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
  • May 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
  • November 11 » Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1910 » Kurt Meyer, German general († 1961)
• 1911 » James Gregory, American actor († 2002)
• 1911 » Niels Kaj Jerne, English-Danish physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1912 » Anna J. Harrison, American organic chemist and academic († 1998)
• 1912 » Woodrow Borah, American historian of Spanish America († 1999)