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Birthday March 18, 1912

• The temperature on March 18, 1912 was between 4.7 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
  • 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.
  • September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
  • October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » C. Walter Hodges, English author and illustrator († 2004)
• 1909 » Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery († 2007)
• 1911 » Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor († 1967)
• 1912 » Art Gilmore, American voice actor and announcer († 2010)
• 1913 » René Clément, French director and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1913 » Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot († 1941)