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Birthday June 4, 1913

• The temperature on June 4, 1913 was between 12.0 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
  • June 23 » Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
  • August 13 » First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
  • August 16 » Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMSQueen Mary.
  • September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
  • October 9 » The steamship SSVolturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.

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)