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Birthday January 7, 1911

• The temperature on January 7, 1911 was between 0.5 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
  • January 26 » Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
  • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • 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.
  • August 14 » United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
  • October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Red Allen, American trumpet player († 1967)
• 1910 » Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas († 1994)
• 1912 » Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family († 1988)
• 1913 » Johnny Mize, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster († 1993)
• 1916 » Babe Pratt, Canadian ice hockey player († 1988)
• 1916 » W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan geographer and academic († 1989)