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Birthday June 4, 1912

• The temperature on June 4, 1912 was between 9.1 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1 » The Republic of China is established.
  • February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
  • March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
  • September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft († 1999)
• 1912 » Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter († 1993)
• 1915 » Modibo Keïta, Malian educator and politician, 1st President of Mali († 1977)
• 1915 » Nils Kihlberg, Swedish actor, singer, and director († 1965)
• 1915 » Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer († 2006)
• 1916 » Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)