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Birthday September 23, 1911

• The temperature on September 23, 1911 was between 3.2 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
  • May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
  • September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
  • October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
  • December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
  • December 29 » Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Lorenc Antoni, Kosovo-Albanian composer and conductor († 1991)
• 1910 » Jakob Streit, Swiss anthroposophist and author († 2009)
• 1911 » Frank Moss, American lawyer and politician († 2003)
• 1912 » Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani linguist, author, and critic († 2005)
• 1912 » Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator († 1980)
• 1913 » Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish painter and sculptor († 2007)