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Birthday October 10, 1911

• The temperature on October 10, 1911 was between 3.5 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
  • July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
  • July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
  • August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
  • October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Johnny Green, American conductor and composer († 1989)
• 1909 » Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director († 2010)
• 1910 » Julius Shulman, American photographer and environmentalist († 2009)
• 1911 » Clare Hollingworth, English journalist and author († 2017)
• 1912 » Ram Vilas Sharma, Indian poet and critic († 2000)
• 1913 » Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)