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Birthday July 21, 1912

• The temperature on July 21, 1912 was between 8.6 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
  • March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
  • April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
  • December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect († 1996)
• 1911 » Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and theorist († 1980)
• 1911 » Umashankar Joshi, Indian author, poet, and scholar († 1988)
• 1914 » Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower († 1977)
• 1917 » Alan B. Gold, Canadian lawyer and jurist († 2005)
• 1920 » Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, sculptor, and illustrator († 2005)