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Birthday February 5, 1912

• The temperature on February 5, 1912 was between -15.8 °C and -3.4 °C and averaged -9.7 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
  • March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
  • May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
  • September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Grażyna Bacewicz, Polish violinist and composer († 1969)
• 1910 » Charles Philippe Leblond, French-Canadian biologist and academic († 2007)
• 1910 » Francisco Varallo, Argentinian footballer († 2010)
• 1911 » Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor († 1960)
• 1914 » Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1914 » William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist († 1997)