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Birthday June 22, 1912

• The temperature on June 22, 1912 was between 10.2 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 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 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
  • January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
  • February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Anne Ziegler, English singer († 2003)
• 1910 » John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Indian-English lieutenant and mountaineer († 1998)
• 1911 » Vernon Kirby, South African tennis player († 1994)
• 1912 » Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha († 1983)
• 1912 » Raymonde Allain, French model and actress († 2008)
• 1913 » Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet and author († 1989)