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Birthday April 8, 1912

• The temperature on April 8, 1912 was between 6.0 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 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.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
  • 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.
  • October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
  • November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
  • December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » George Musso, American football player and police officer († 2000)
• 1911 » Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic († 1995)
• 1911 » Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1912 » Alois Brunner, Austrian-German SS officer (d. 2001 or 2010)
• 1912 » Sonja Henie, Norwegian-American figure skater and actress († 1969)
• 1914 » María Félix, Yaqui/Basque-Mexican actress († 2002)