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Birthday September 12, 1912

• The temperature on September 12, 1912 was between 8.8 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
  • June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
  • November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
  • December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright († 1963)
• 1909 » Donald MacDonald, Canadian trade union leader and politician († 1986)
• 1913 » Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper († 1980)
• 1914 » Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh-English soldier and actor († 1999)
• 1914 » Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, poet, and scholar († 1988)
• 1916 » Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver († 1961)