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Birthday January 27, 1911

• The temperature on January 27, 1911 was between 4.9 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. 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.
  • January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
  • 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.
  • October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
  • November 3 » Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
  • December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
  • December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1910 » Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general, economist, and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia († 1979)
• 1912 » Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher and environmentalist († 2009)
• 1912 » Francis Rogallo, American engineer, invented the Rogallo wing († 2009)
• 1915 » Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-American painter, sculptor, and illustrator († 1985)
• 1915 » Jules Archer, American historian and author († 2008)