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Birthday October 23, 1911

• The temperature on October 23, 1911 was between 9.7 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 10.6 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). 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.
  • June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
  • 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.
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » František Douda, Czech shot putter († 1990)
• 1908 » Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1990)
• 1909 » Zellig Harris, American linguist and methodologist († 1992)
• 1910 » Hayden Rorke, American actor († 1987)
• 1910 » Richard Mortensen, Danish painter and educator († 1993)
• 1911 » Jack Keller, American hurdler († 1978)