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Birthday May 26, 1911

• The temperature on May 26, 1911 was between 10.5 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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.
  • May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
  • May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
  • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • 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.
  • November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
  • November 11 » Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager († 1994)
• 1910 » Imi Lichtenfeld, Hungarian-Israeli martial artist, boxer, and gymnast († 1998)
• 1911 » Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer († 1992)
• 1911 » Maurice Baquet, French actor and cellist († 2005)
• 1912 » János Kádár, Hungarian mechanic and politician, 46th Prime Minister of Hungary († 1989)
• 1912 » Jay Silverheels, Canadian-American actor († 1980)