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Birthday December 3, 1912

• The temperature on December 3, 1912 was between -0.8 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
  • May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
  • June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
  • November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
  • November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » Les Ames, English cricketer († 1990)
• 1907 » Connee Boswell, American jazz singer († 1976)
• 1911 » Nino Rota, Italian pianist, composer, conductor, and academic († 1979)
• 1914 » Irving Fine, American composer and academic († 1962)
• 1918 » Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general and politician, 12th Indonesian Minister of Defence († 2000)
• 1919 » Charles Lynch, Canadian journalist and author († 1994)