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Birthday February 9, 1911

• The temperature on February 9, 1911 was between -3.1 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
  • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
  • August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
  • September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
  • 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

• 1909 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress, singer, and dancer († 1955)
• 1909 » Heather Angel, English-American actress († 1986)
• 1910 » Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1911 » William Orlando Darby, American general († 1945)
• 1912 » Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna († 1968)
• 1912 » Ginette Leclerc, French actress († 1992)