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Birthday January 17, 1912

• The temperature on January 17, 1912 was between -9.2 °C and -2.5 °C and averaged -5.6 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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.
  • January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
  • June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
  • September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
  • October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
  • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Busher Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player († 1966)
• 1911 » George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1911 » John S. McCain Jr., American admiral († 1981)
• 1914 » Anacleto Angelini, Italian-Chilean businessman († 2007)
• 1914 » Irving Brecher, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1914 » Paul Royle, Australian lieutenant and pilot († 2015)