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Birthday May 19, 1912

• The temperature on May 19, 1912 was between 9.8 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.0 °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.
  • February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
  • March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
  • March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
  • 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.
  • May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
  • May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.

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)