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Birthday February 1, 1912

• The temperature on February 1, 1912 was between -2.3 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 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 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
  • April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
  • October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Source: Wikipedia

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