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Birthday June 13, 1912

• The temperature on June 13, 1912 was between 11.4 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
  • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
  • November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic († 1977)
• 1911 » Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1911 » Maurice Copeland, American actor († 1985)
• 1912 » Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter († 1943)
• 1913 » Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host († 2005)
• 1913 » Yitzhak Pundak, Israeli general, diplomat and politician († 2017)