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Birthday March 25, 1912

• The temperature on March 25, 1912 was between 6.2 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
  • July 30 » Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
  • October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
  • November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
  • November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Benzion Netanyahu, Polish-Israeli historian and academic († 2012)
• 1910 » Magda Olivero, Italian soprano († 2014)
• 1912 » Jean Vilar, French actor and director († 1971)
• 1912 » Melita Norwood, English civil servant and spy († 2005)
• 1913 » Reo Stakis, Cypriot-Scottish businessman, founded Stakis Hotels († 2001)
• 1914 » Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)