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Birthday February 19, 1912

• The temperature on February 19, 1912 was between 5.6 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
  • February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
  • December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress († 1979)
• 1912 » Dorothy Janis, American actress († 2010)
• 1912 » Saul Chaplin, American composer († 1997)
• 1913 » Frank Tashlin, American animator and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1913 » Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza († 2007)
• 1914 » Thelma Kench, New Zealand Olympic sprinter († 1985)