Genealogy Wylie » Ruth Annie Owens (1911-)

Birthday June 18, 1911

• The temperature on June 18, 1911 was between 12.0 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 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 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
  • April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
  • May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
  • July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
  • August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Avon Long, American actor and singer († 1984)
• 1910 » Dick Foran, American actor and singer († 1979)
• 1910 » Ray McKinley, American singer, drummer, and bandleader († 1995)
• 1912 » Glenn Morris, American decathlete († 1974)
• 1913 » Sammy Cahn, American pianist and composer († 1993)
• 1913 » Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon († 2005)