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Birthday August 20, 1911

• The temperature on August 20, 1911 was between 9.9 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 18 » The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2mi) away.
  • May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
  • July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
  • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
  • November 3 » Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1909 » André Morell, English actor († 1978)
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• 1912 » John H. Michaelis, American general († 1985)
• 1913 » Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neuropsychologist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)