Descendants Engbert Verbeek » Gerrit Petrus van KOERT (1911-)

Birthday February 11, 1911

• The temperature on February 11, 1911 was between -4.2 and 2.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • 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 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
  • October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
  • December 9 » A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
  • December 29 » Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Philip Dunne, American screenwriter († 1992)
• 1908 » Vivian Fuchs, English explorer († 1999)
• 1909 » Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1909 » Max Baer, American boxer and actor († 1959)
• 1912 » Rudolf Firkušný, Czech-American pianist and educator († 1994)
• 1914 » Matt Dennis, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2002)