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Birthday April 23, 1912

• The temperature on April 23, 1912 was between 5.8 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
  • October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Myron Waldman, American animator and director († 2006)
• 1910 » Sheila Scott Macintyre, Scottish mathematician († 1960)
• 1910 » Simone Simon, French actress († 2005)
• 1911 » Ronald Neame, English-American director, cinematographer, producer, and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1913 » Diosa Costello, Puerto Rican-American entertainer, producer and club owner († 2013)
• 1915 » Arnold Alexander Hall, English engineer, academic, and businessman († 2000)