Jan Borren » Levenloos van den Brink (1912-)

Birthday June 18, 1912

• The temperature on June 18, 1912 was between 10.0 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The Republic of China is established.
  • January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
  • September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
  • December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Glenn Morris, American decathlete († 1974)
• 1913 » Françoise Loranger, Canadian playwright and producer († 1995)
• 1913 » Robert Mondavi, American winemaker and philanthropist († 2008)
• 1913 » Sammy Cahn, American pianist and composer († 1993)
• 1913 » Sylvia Porter, American economist and journalist († 1991)
• 1913 » Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon († 2005)