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Birthday April 8, 1912

• The temperature on April 8, 1912 was between 5.9 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
  • January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
  • June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
  • October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » George Musso, American football player and police officer († 2000)
• 1911 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic († 1995)
• 1911 » Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1912 » Alois Brunner, Austrian-German SS officer (d. 2001 or 2010)
• 1912 » Sonja Henie, Norwegian-American figure skater and actress († 1969)
• 1914 » María Félix, Yaqui/Basque-Mexican actress († 2002)