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Birthday August 26, 1911

• The temperature on August 26, 1911 was between 13.0 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
  • June 22 » Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
  • August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
  • December 9 » A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar († 1967)
• 1909 » Eric Davies, South African cricketer and educator († 1976)
• 1909 » Gene Moore, American baseball player († 1978)
• 1909 » Jim Davis, American actor († 1981)
• 1910 » Mother Teresa, Macedonian-Indian nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1911 » Otto Binder, American author and screenwriter († 1974)