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Birthday May 19, 1912

• The temperature on May 19, 1912 was between 9.6 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
  • November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
  • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
  • December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Nicholas Winton, English banker and humanitarian († 2015)
• 1910 » Alan Melville, South African cricketer († 1983)
• 1913 » Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th President of India († 1996)
• 1914 » Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player († 2005)
• 1914 » John Vachon, American photographer and journalist († 1975)
• 1914 » Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2002)