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Birthday September 19, 1911

• The temperature on September 19, 1911 was between 9.7 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
  • April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
  • May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
  • July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
  • September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
  • October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian engineer and businessman († 1998)
• 1910 » Arturo M. Tolentino, Filipino diplomat and politician († 2004)
• 1910 » Margaret Lindsay, American actress († 1981)
• 1911 » William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1993)
• 1912 » Kurt Sanderling, Polish-German conductor († 2011)
• 1912 » Reuben David, Indian veterinarian and zoo founder († 1989)