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Birthday August 16, 1911

• The temperature on August 16, 1911 was between 12.1 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
  • 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.
  • August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
  • 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

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• 1910 » Mae Clarke, American actress († 1992)
• 1911 » E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician († 1977)
• 1912 » Ted Drake, English footballer and manager († 1995)
• 1913 » Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli politician, Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)