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Birthday June 12, 1908

• The temperature on June 12, 1908 was between 12.1 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 13.9 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
  • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
  • July 26 » United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
  • September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
  • September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
  • November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Ray Barbuti, American sprinter and football player († 1988)
• 1906 » Sandro Penna, Italian poet († 1977)
• 1908 » Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian broadcaster († 1988)
• 1908 » Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina and educator († 2010)
• 1908 » Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer († 1975)
• 1910 » Bill Naughton, Irish-English playwright and author († 1992)