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Birthday June 4, 1911

• The temperature on June 4, 1911 was between 12.8 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
  • January 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
  • January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
  • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • September 20 » The White Star Line's RMSOlympic collides with the British warship HMSHawke.
  • 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

• 1907 » Jacques Roumain, Haitian journalist and politician († 1944)
• 1907 » Patience Strong, English poet and journalist († 1990)
• 1907 » Rosalind Russell, American actress († 1976)
• 1910 » Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft († 1999)
• 1912 » Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter († 1993)
• 1915 » Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer († 2006)