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Birthday August 28, 1912

• The temperature on August 28, 1912 was between 7.7 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 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.
  • January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
  • February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO († 2002)
• 1913 » Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation († 2009)
• 1913 » Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer and sportscaster († 1993)
• 1913 » Robert Irving, English conductor and director († 1991)
• 1913 » Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright († 1995)
• 1913 » Terence Reese, English bridge player and author († 1996)