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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.
  • April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
  • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • June 22 » Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
  • July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
  • September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
  • December 29 » Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.

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)