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Birthday April 12, 1912

• The temperature on April 12, 1912 was between -2 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
  • April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
  • 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.
  • November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
  • November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1911 » Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer († 1976)
• 1912 » Frank Dilio, Canadian businessman († 1997)
• 1912 » Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, 2nd Vice President of Indonesia († 1988)
• 1912 » Hound Dog Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1975)
• 1913 » Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist († 2013)