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Birthday April 21, 1911

• The temperature on April 21, 1911 was between 1.3 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (32%). 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.
  • January 12 » The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
  • May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
  • August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
  • October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
  • October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Ivan Combe, American businessman, developed Clearasil († 2000)
• 1911 » Kemal Satır, Turkish physician and politician († 1991)
• 1912 » Eve Arnold, Russian-American photojournalist († 2012)
• 1912 » Marcel Camus, French director and screenwriter († 1982)
• 1913 » Norman Parkinson, English photographer († 1990)
• 1914 » Angelo Savoldi, Italian-American wrestler and promoter, co-founded International World Class Championship Wrestling († 2013)