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Birthday March 7, 1912

• The temperature on March 7, 1912 was between 2.4 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
  • September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
  • December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
  • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.
  • December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Will Glickman, American playwright († 1983)
• 1911 » Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Indian modern poet, journalist and author († 1987)
• 1911 » Stefan Kisielewski, Polish libertarian writer and politician († 1991)
• 1912 » Adile Ayda, Turkish engineer and diplomat († 1992)
• 1913 » Dollard Ménard, Canadian general († 1997)
• 1915 » Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France († 2000)