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Birthday February 5, 1912

• The temperature on February 5, 1912 was between -15.8 °C and -3.4 °C and averaged -9.7 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (75%). 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 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
  • February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
  • March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
  • August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Grażyna Bacewicz, Polish violinist and composer († 1969)
• 1910 » Charles Philippe Leblond, French-Canadian biologist and academic († 2007)
• 1910 » Francisco Varallo, Argentinian footballer († 2010)
• 1911 » Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor († 1960)
• 1914 » Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1914 » William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist († 1997)