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Birthday February 6, 1912

• The temperature on February 6, 1912 was between -3.4 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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.
  • January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
  • 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 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.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Irmgard Keun, German author († 1982)
• 1910 » Roman Czerniawski, Polish air force officer and spy († 1985)
• 1911 » Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States († 2004)
• 1912 » Christopher Hill, English historian and author († 2003)
• 1912 » Eva Braun, German wife of Adolf Hitler († 1945)
• 1913 » Mary Leakey, English-Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist († 1996)