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Birthday February 5, 1913

• The temperature on February 5, 1913 was between 5.9 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 18 » First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
  • March 3 » Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
  • March 12 » The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.
  • April 24 » The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
  • June 19 » Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
  • August 28 » Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 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)
• 1915 » Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1990)