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Birthday February 13, 1911

• The temperature on February 13, 1911 was between -2.9 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
  • May 9 » The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
  • May 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
  • August 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
  • October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
  • November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1911 » Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Indian-Pakistani poet and journalist († 1984)
• 1911 » Jean Muir, American actress and educator († 1996)
• 1912 » Harald Riipalu, Russian-Estonian commander († 1961)
• 1912 » Margaretta Scott, English actress († 2005)
• 1913 » Khalid of Saudi Arabia († 1982)