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Birthday February 16, 1911

• The temperature on February 16, 1911 was between -1.7 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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.
  • 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.
  • March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
  • April 6 » During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
  • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.
  • October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Henrietta Barnett, British Women's Royal Air Force officer († 1985)
• 1906 » Vera Menchik, British-Czechoslovak-Russian chess player († 1944)
• 1909 » Hugh Beaumont, American actor and director († 1982)
• 1909 » Richard McDonald, Irish-American businessman, co-founded McDonald's († 1998)
• 1914 » Jimmy Wakely, American country music singer-songwriter and actor († 1982)
• 1916 » Bill Doggett, African-American pianist and composer († 1996)