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Birthday July 27, 1912

• The temperature on July 27, 1912 was between 14.2 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
  • September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
  • October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
  • October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1911 » Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet († 1981)
• 1912 » Vernon Elliott, English bassoon player, composer, and conductor († 1996)
• 1913 » George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient († 2000)
• 1914 » August Sang, Estonian poet and translator († 1969)