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Birthday May 30, 1912

• The temperature on May 30, 1912 was between 5.5 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
  • March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Harry Bernstein, English-American journalist and author († 2011)
• 1912 » Erich Bagge, German physicist and academic († 1996)
• 1912 » Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor († 1980)
• 1912 » Joseph Stein, American playwright and author († 2010)
• 1912 » Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1912 » Millicent Selsam, American author and academic († 1996)