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Birthday January 20, 1912

• The temperature on January 20, 1912 was between -2.4 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
  • September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
  • November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1910 » Joy Adamson, Austria-born Kenyan painter and author († 1980)
• 1913 » W. Cleon Skousen, American author and academic († 2006)
• 1915 » Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani businessman and politician, 7th President of Pakistan († 2006)