Genealogy Van der Linden en aanverwante families » Johanna Maria Sontrop (1911-)

Birthday August 26, 1911

• The temperature on August 26, 1911 was between 13.7 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
  • February 18 » The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2mi) away.
  • April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
  • July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
  • October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
  • 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.

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• 1909 » Gene Moore, American baseball player († 1978)
• 1909 » Jim Davis, American actor († 1981)
• 1910 » Mother Teresa, Macedonian-Indian nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1911 » Otto Binder, American author and screenwriter († 1974)