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Birthday September 23, 1911

• The temperature on September 23, 1911 was between 2.4 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
  • September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
  • November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
  • December 9 » A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
  • December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Lorenc Antoni, Kosovo-Albanian composer and conductor († 1991)
• 1910 » Jakob Streit, Swiss anthroposophist and author († 2009)
• 1911 » Frank Moss, American lawyer and politician († 2003)
• 1912 » Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani linguist, author, and critic († 2005)
• 1912 » Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator († 1980)
• 1913 » Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish painter and sculptor († 2007)