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Birthday April 12, 1914

• The temperature on April 12, 1914 was between 4.4 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
  • September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
  • November 16 » The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
  • November 28 » World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
  • December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Frank Dilio, Canadian businessman († 1997)
• 1912 » Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, 2nd Vice President of Indonesia († 1988)
• 1912 » Hound Dog Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1975)
• 1913 » Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist († 2013)
• 1914 » Armen Alchian, American economist and academic († 2013)
• 1916 » Beverly Cleary, American author