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Birthday September 24, 1911

• The temperature on September 24, 1911 was between 4.9 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 18 » Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
  • March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
  • April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
  • May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
  • October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
  • November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1912 » Robert Lewis Taylor, American soldier and author († 1998)
• 1913 » Herb Jeffries, American singer († 2014)
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