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Birthday October 5, 1912

• The temperature on October 5, 1912 was between -2.2 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
  • October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
  • November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Tony Malinosky, American baseball player and soldier († 2011)
• 1911 » Brian O'Nolan, Irish author and playwright († 1966)
• 1911 » Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist and academic († 2011)
• 1912 » Fritz Fischer, German physician († 2003)
• 1913 » Eugene B. Fluckey, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient († 2007)
• 1914 » Zhang Zhen, Chinese general and politician († 2015)