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Birthday April 8, 1912

• The temperature on April 8, 1912 was between 6.0 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 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.
  • June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
  • July 30 » Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
  • October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
  • December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
  • December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » George Musso, American football player and police officer († 2000)
• 1911 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic († 1995)
• 1911 » Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1912 » Alois Brunner, Austrian-German SS officer (d. 2001 or 2010)
• 1912 » Sonja Henie, Norwegian-American figure skater and actress († 1969)
• 1914 » María Félix, Yaqui/Basque-Mexican actress († 2002)