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Birthday June 10, 1912

• The temperature on June 10, 1912 was between 9.2 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. 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.
  • 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.
  • May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
  • October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
  • November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
  • December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Frank Demaree, American baseball player and manager († 1958)
• 1911 » Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichord player and musicologist († 1984)
• 1911 » Terence Rattigan, English playwright and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1912 » Jean Lesage, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Premier of Quebec († 1980)
• 1913 » Benjamin Shapira, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1993)
• 1913 » Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer († 2007)