Lax Family Tree » Cecil William Dennis Sankey (1911-1982)

Birthday September 22, 1911

• The temperature on September 22, 1911 was between 6.2 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • April 27 » Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
  • May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
  • September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
  • September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
  • October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1909 » John Engstead, American photographer and journalist († 1983)
• 1910 » György Faludy, Hungarian poet and author († 2006)
• 1912 » Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic († 2011)
• 1912 » Martha Scott, American actress († 2003)
• 1913 » Lillian Chestney, American painter and illustrator († 2000)