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Birthday January 18, 1911

• The temperature on January 18, 1911 was between 1.7 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
  • May 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
  • July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
  • August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
  • September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
  • September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, historian, and television host († 1974)
• 1910 » Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist and academic († 1993)
• 1911 » Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1987)
• 1911 » José María Arguedas, Peruvian anthropologist, author, and poet († 1969)
• 1913 » Carroll Cloar, American artist († 1993)
• 1913 » Giannis Papaioannou, Greek composer († 1972)