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Birthday February 13, 1912

• The temperature on February 13, 1912 was between 2.5 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
  • August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
  • 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.
  • September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
  • October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1911 » Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Indian-Pakistani poet and journalist († 1984)
• 1911 » Jean Muir, American actress and educator († 1996)
• 1912 » Harald Riipalu, Russian-Estonian commander († 1961)
• 1912 » Margaretta Scott, English actress († 2005)
• 1913 » Khalid of Saudi Arabia († 1982)