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Birthday January 23, 1912

• The temperature on January 23, 1912 was between 1.0 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. 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.
  • January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
  • November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
  • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer († 1953)
• 1912 » Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director and manager († 2009)
• 1913 » Jean-Michel Atlan, Algerian-French painter († 1960)
• 1913 » Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association († 2007)
• 1915 » Herma Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower and handball player († 2003)
• 1915 » W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian-Barbadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)