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Day of death March 4, 1912

• The temperature on March 4, 1912 was between 4.6 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
  • September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
  • November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (b. 1834)
• 1906 » John Schofield, American general and politician, 28th United States Secretary of War (b. 1831)
• 1915 » William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time (b. 1856)
• 1916 » Franz Marc, German painter (b. 1880)
• 1925 » James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German pianist and composer (b. 1854)