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Birthday December 13, 1911

• The temperature on December 13, 1911 was between 0.1 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 12 » The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
  • May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
  • September 24 » His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
  • 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 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
  • November 3 » Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Brazilian historian and activist († 1995)
• 1908 » Van Heflin, American actor († 1971)
• 1911 » Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter († 1972)
• 1911 » Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)
• 1912 » Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player († 1989)
• 1913 » Arnold Brown, English-Canadian missionary, 11th General of The Salvation Army († 2002)