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Birthday February 9, 1912

• The temperature on February 9, 1912 was between 7.9 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
  • 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.
  • May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
  • September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
  • October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1910 » Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1911 » William Orlando Darby, American general († 1945)
• 1912 » Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna († 1968)
• 1912 » Ginette Leclerc, French actress († 1992)
• 1914 » Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1984)