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Birthday June 18, 1912

• The temperature on June 18, 1912 was between 10.4 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 14.6 °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.
  • March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
  • 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.
  • October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.

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)