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Birthday March 11, 1907

• The temperature on March 11, 1907 was between -2.9 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
  • June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • August 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
  • September 29 » The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
  • November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and bandleader († 1992)
• 1903 » Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian and scholar († 1989)
• 1907 » Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer († 1981)
• 1908 » Matti Sippala, Finnish javelin thrower († 1997)
• 1910 » Robert Havemann, German chemist and academic († 1982)
• 1911 » Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Egyptian-Scottish general and politician († 1996)