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Birthday March 27, 1912

• The temperature on March 27, 1912 was between 8.2 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1 » The Republic of China is established.
  • March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
  • 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 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 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

• 1910 » Ai Qing, Chinese poet and author († 1996)
• 1911 » Veronika Tushnova, Russian poet and physician († 1965)
• 1912 » James Callaghan, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 2005)
• 1913 » Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer († 1945)
• 1914 » Budd Schulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer († 2009)
• 1914 » Richard Denning, American actor († 1998)