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Birthday June 17, 1911

• The temperature on June 17, 1911 was between 9.9 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
  • 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.
  • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • August 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
  • September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
  • September 20 » The White Star Line's RMSOlympic collides with the British warship HMSHawke.

Source: Wikipedia

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