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Birthday September 7, 1912

• The temperature on September 7, 1912 was between 9.1 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
  • January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
  • May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
  • October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian police officer and politician, Head of State of Bulgaria († 1998)
• 1912 » David Packard, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard († 1996)
• 1913 » Anthony Quayle, English actor († 1989)
• 1913 » Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, English soldier and courtier († 1999)
• 1914 » Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer († 2012)
• 1914 » Lída Baarová, Czech-Austrian actress († 2000)