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Birthday April 6, 1912

• The temperature on April 6, 1912 was between 8.8 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
  • February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
  • April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
  • October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Hermann Lang, German race car driver († 1987)
• 1909 » William M. Branham, American minister and theologian († 1965)
• 1910 » Barys Kit, Belarusian-American rocket scientist († 2018)
• 1911 » Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1913 » Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, American geographer and academic († 1993)
• 1915 » Tadeusz Kantor, Polish director, painter, and set designer († 1990)