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Birthday December 10, 1912

• The temperature on December 10, 1912 was between 0.5 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
  • February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
  • April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
  • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
  • 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.
  • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Chet Huntley, American journalist († 1974)
• 1912 » Philip Hart, American lawyer and politician, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan († 1976)
• 1912 » René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician († 1990)
• 1913 » Harry Locke, English actor († 1987)
• 1913 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1996)
• 1913 » Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American composer († 1988)