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Birthday August 26, 1912

• The temperature on August 26, 1912 was between 11.5 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 20.5 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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).
  • May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
  • May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
  • October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
  • October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
  • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Eric Davies, South African cricketer and educator († 1976)
• 1909 » Jim Davis, American actor († 1981)
• 1910 » Mother Teresa, Macedonian-Indian nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1911 » Otto Binder, American author and screenwriter († 1974)
• 1914 » Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet († 2008)
• 1914 » Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and translator († 1984)