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Birthday September 19, 1911

• The temperature on September 19, 1911 was between 9.1 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
  • May 21 » President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
  • July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
  • September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
  • October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
  • November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian engineer and businessman († 1998)
• 1910 » Arturo M. Tolentino, Filipino diplomat and politician († 2004)
• 1910 » Margaret Lindsay, American actress († 1981)
• 1911 » William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1993)
• 1912 » Kurt Sanderling, Polish-German conductor († 2011)
• 1912 » Reuben David, Indian veterinarian and zoo founder († 1989)