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Birthday July 3, 1911

• The temperature on July 3, 1911 was between 4.8 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
  • April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
  • May 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
  • 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 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
  • September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » M. F. K. Fisher, American author († 1992)
• 1908 » Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey († 1990)
• 1909 » Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping magnate (d.1996)
• 1910 » Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer († 1954)
• 1911 » Joe Hardstaff Jr., English cricketer († 1990)
• 1913 » Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, actress, and author († 1965)