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Birthday April 30, 1912

• The temperature on April 30, 1912 was between 3.4 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
  • March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
  • November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Eve Arden, American actress († 1990)
• 1909 » F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor and educator († 1992)
• 1909 » Juliana of the Netherlands († 2004)
• 1910 » Levi Celerio, Filipino pianist, violinist, and composer († 2002)
• 1914 » Charles Beetham, American middle-distance runner († 1997)
• 1914 » Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter († 2008)