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Birthday May 31, 1912

• The temperature on May 31, 1912 was between 5.7 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (72%). 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.
  • February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
  • May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
  • June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
  • June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
  • October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
  • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Don Ameche, American actor († 1993)
• 1909 » Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player († 2000)
• 1911 » Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2010)
• 1912 » Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American experimental physicist († 1997)
• 1914 » Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer and educator († 2006)
• 1916 » Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter († 1997)