Family tree Servaes, Maastricht/Venlo/Straelen/Neuss/Düsseldorf » Joseph Léonard Servaes (1911-)

Birthday April 24, 1911

• The temperature on April 24, 1911 was between 7.3 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
  • April 6 » During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
  • July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
  • September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
  • November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Inga Gentzel, Swedish runner († 1991)
• 1908 » Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor († 1963)
• 1908 » Marceline Day, American actress († 2000)
• 1912 » Ruth Osburn, American discus thrower († 1994)
• 1913 » Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer († 2014)
• 1914 » William Castle, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1977)