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Birthday June 12, 1912

• The temperature on June 12, 1912 was between 12.1 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
  • 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.
  • October 11 » First Balkan War: The day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, Greek troops liberate the city of Kozani.
  • October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
  • December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Bill Naughton, Irish-English playwright and author († 1992)
• 1912 » Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1993)
• 1912 » Carl Hovland, American psychologist and academic († 1961)
• 1913 » Desmond Piers, Canadian admiral († 2005)
• 1913 » Jean Victor Allard, Canadian general († 1996)
• 1914 » William Lundigan, American actor († 1975)