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Birthday May 5, 1911

• The temperature on May 5, 1911 was between -0.2 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
  • April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
  • May 21 » President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
  • September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
  • October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
  • November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Miklós Radnóti, Hungarian poet and author († 1944)
• 1910 » Leo Lionni, American author and illustrator († 1999)
• 1911 » Andor Lilienthal, Russian-Hungarian chess player († 2010)
• 1911 » Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1911 » Pritilata Waddedar, Indian educator and activist († 1932)
• 1913 » Duane Carter, American race car driver († 1993)