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Birthday June 8, 1911

• The temperature on June 8, 1911 was between 10.4 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
  • September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
  • November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
  • November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
  • December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
  • December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » C. C. Beck, American illustrator († 1989)
• 1910 » Fernand Fonssagrives, French-American photographer, sculptor, and painter († 2003)
• 1910 » John W. Campbell, American journalist and author († 1971)
• 1911 » Edmundo Rivero, Argentinian singer-songwriter († 1986)
• 1912 » Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician († 1989)
• 1912 » Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, British abstract painter († 2004)