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Birthday July 21, 1911

• The temperature on July 21, 1911 was between 15.0 °C and 29.8 °C and averaged 22.9 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
  • May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
  • July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
  • October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
  • October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
  • November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1908 » Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect († 1996)
• 1911 » Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and theorist († 1980)
• 1911 » Umashankar Joshi, Indian author, poet, and scholar († 1988)
• 1914 » Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower († 1977)
• 1917 » Alan B. Gold, Canadian lawyer and jurist († 2005)