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Birthday October 29, 1911

• The temperature on October 29, 1911 was between -1.9 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 7.8 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.
  • 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.
  • May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
  • June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • 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 9 » A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1910 » A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and author († 1989)
• 1913 » Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee († 2014)
• 1914 » Maxim of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch († 2012)
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