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Birthday November 2, 1911

• The temperature on November 2, 1911 was between 0.7 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (29%). 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 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
  • April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
  • May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
  • May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
  • September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Bunny Berigan, American trumpet player († 1942)
• 1908 » Fred Bakewell, English cricketer († 1983)
• 1910 » Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian lawyer and politician, Egyptian Minister of Interior († 1999)
• 1911 » Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1911 » Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, philosopher, and theorist († 1995)
• 1913 » Burt Lancaster, American actor († 1994)