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Birthday March 11, 1911

• The temperature on March 11, 1911 was between 1.3 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (37%). 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.
  • May 21 » President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
  • May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
  • May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
  • July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
  • December 9 » A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer († 1981)
• 1908 » Matti Sippala, Finnish javelin thrower († 1997)
• 1910 » Robert Havemann, German chemist and academic († 1982)
• 1911 » Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Egyptian-Scottish general and politician († 1996)
• 1913 » Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke, German colonel and pilot († 1944)
• 1915 » Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer († 2004)