The Brown Tree » Martha Jane RUSSELL (1911-2008)

Birthday November 15, 1911

• The temperature on November 15, 1911 was between 0.7 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 4 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 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
  • 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.
  • 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 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
  • November 11 » Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
  • November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth († 1979)
• 1912 » Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic († 2010)
• 1912 » Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel († 1945)
• 1913 » Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet († 2005)
• 1913 » Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach († 2003)
• 1914 » V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge († 2014)