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Birthday February 2, 1911

• The temperature on February 2, 1911 was between 1.2 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
  • April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
  • April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
  • May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
  • 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

• 1908 » Wes Ferrell, American baseball player and manager († 1976)
• 1909 » Frank Albertson, American actor († 1964)
• 1911 » Jack Pizzey, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Queensland († 1968)
• 1912 » Burton Lane, American songwriter and composer († 1997)
• 1912 » Millvina Dean, English civil servant and cartographer († 2009)
• 1913 » Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor and singer († 1985)