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Birthday September 12, 1911

• The temperature on September 12, 1911 was between 9.6 °C and 28.7 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
  • May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
  • August 14 » United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
  • October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
  • November 3 » Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1913 » Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper († 1980)
• 1914 » Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh-English soldier and actor († 1999)
• 1914 » Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, poet, and scholar († 1988)
• 1916 » Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver († 1961)