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Birthday July 31, 1912

• The temperature on July 31, 1912 was between 11.9 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • 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 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
  • October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
  • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » George Liberace, American violinist († 1983)
• 1912 » Bill Brown, Australian cricketer († 2008)
• 1912 » Irv Kupcinet, American football player and journalist († 2003)
• 1912 » Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2006)
• 1913 » Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player († 1984)
• 1914 » Paul J. Christiansen, American conductor and composer († 1997)