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Birthday August 30, 1911

• The temperature on August 30, 1911 was between 8.1 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • January 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
  • May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
  • June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
  • October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
  • 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

• 1908 » Fred MacMurray, American actor († 1991)
• 1909 » Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator († 1968)
• 1910 » Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot († 1944)
• 1912 » Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1912 » Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain († 2011)
• 1913 » Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)