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Birthday August 30, 1911

• The temperature on August 30, 1911 was between 8.1 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 29 » Mexican Revolution: Mexicali is captured by the Mexican Liberal Party, igniting the Magonista rebellion of 1911.
  • March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
  • June 22 » Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
  • September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
  • September 24 » His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
  • December 14 » Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Fred MacMurray, American actor († 1991)
• 1909 » Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator († 1968)
• 1910 » Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot († 1944)
• 1912 » Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1912 » Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain († 2011)
• 1913 » Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)