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Birthday November 7, 1912

• The temperature on November 7, 1912 was between -0.4 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 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 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
  • March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
  • March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
  • April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
  • October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Victor Beaumont, German-English actor († 1977)
• 1913 » Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1960)
• 1913 » Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1913 » Mikhail Solomentsev, Soviet politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union († 2008)
• 1914 » Archie Campbell, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1914 » R. A. Lafferty, American soldier, engineer, and author († 2002)