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Birthday February 22, 1911

• The temperature on February 22, 1911 was between 5.6 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
  • April 27 » Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
  • 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.
  • September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
  • September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
  • December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Robert Young, American actor († 1998)
• 1907 » Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, and producer († 1997)
• 1908 » John Mills, English soldier and actor († 2005)
• 1908 » Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician, 56th President of Venezuela († 1981)
• 1910 » George Hunt, English international footballer, forward († 1996)
• 1914 » Renato Dulbecco, Italian-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)