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Birthday September 5, 1912

• The temperature on September 5, 1912 was between 8.1 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • 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.
  • January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
  • 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.
  • December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Leila Mackinlay, English author († 1996)
• 1910 » Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer († 1981)
• 1912 » Frank Thomas, American voice actor, animator, and screenwriter († 2004)
• 1912 » John Cage, American composer and theorist († 1992)
• 1912 » Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German actress and photographer († 2001)
• 1914 » Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist († 2013)