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Birthday September 7, 1911

• The temperature on September 7, 1911 was between 8.7 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
  • May 21 » President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
  • August 14 » United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
  • September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
  • December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Paul Brown, American football player and coach († 1991)
• 1909 » Elia Kazan, Greek-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2003)
• 1911 » Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian police officer and politician, Head of State of Bulgaria († 1998)
• 1912 » David Packard, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard († 1996)
• 1913 » Anthony Quayle, English actor († 1989)
• 1913 » Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, English soldier and courtier († 1999)