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Birthday August 29, 1912

• The temperature on August 29, 1912 was between 9.7 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
  • September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
  • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
  • October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic († 1985)
• 1911 » John Charnley, British orthopedic surgeon († 1982)
• 1912 » Barry Sullivan, American actor († 1994)
• 1912 » Sohn Kee-chung, South Korean runner († 2002)
• 1912 » Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer († 2016)
• 1913 » Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer († 1999)