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Birthday June 13, 1913

• The temperature on June 13, 1913 was between 4.2 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • January 3 » An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States.
  • January 5 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
  • February 3 » The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
  • February 9 » A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
  • June 19 » Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
  • July 4 » President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)
• 1914 » Frederic Franklin, English-American ballet dancer and director († 2013)