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Birthday December 22, 1911

• The temperature on December 22, 1911 was between 3.4 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • January 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
  • April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
  • April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
  • August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
  • August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Giacomo Manzù, Italian sculptor and academic († 1991)
• 1909 » Patricia Hayes, English actress († 1998)
• 1911 » Danny O'Dea, English actor († 2003)
• 1912 » Elias Degiannis, Greek commander († 1943)
• 1912 » Lady Bird Johnson, American beautification activist; 38th First Lady of the United States († 2007)
• 1913 » Giorgio Oberweger, Italian discus thrower and hurdler († 1998)