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Birthday May 11, 1911

• The temperature on May 11, 1911 was between 10.3 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
  • September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
  • November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
  • November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born SOE agent, war hero († 2004)
• 1907 » Rip Sewell, American baseball player and coach († 1989)
• 1911 » Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance († 2004)
• 1911 » Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian († 1985)
• 1912 » Saadat Hasan Manto, Indian-Pakistani author and screenwriter († 1955)
• 1916 » Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 2002)