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Birthday March 1, 1911

• The temperature on March 1, 1911 was between 3.3 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 9 » The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
  • May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • 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.
  • December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Eugene Esmonde, English lieutenant and pilot († 1942)
• 1909 » Winston Sharples, American pianist and composer († 1978)
• 1910 » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2002)
• 1910 » David Niven, English soldier and actor († 1983)
• 1912 » Boris Chertok, Polish-Russian engineer and academic († 2011)
• 1912 » Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal († 2003)