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Birthday October 6, 1912

• The temperature on October 6, 1912 was between -3.0 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south 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 year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
  • April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
  • October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
  • October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Barbara Castle, English journalist and politician, First Secretary of State († 2002)
• 1910 » Orazio Satta Puliga, Italian automobile designer († 1974)
• 1912 » Perkins Bass, American lawyer and politician († 2011)
• 1913 » Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter and photographer († 1985)
• 1914 » Joan Littlewood, English director and playwright († 2002)
• 1914 » Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer († 2002)