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Birthday June 30, 1912

• The temperature on June 30, 1912 was between 9.5 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • 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.
  • March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • 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.
  • October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Czesław Miłosz, Polish novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1911 » Nagarjun, Indian poet († 1998)
• 1912 » Dan Reeves, American businessman and philanthropist († 1971)
• 1912 » Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer († 2003)
• 1912 » María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías, Mexican architect († 2009)
• 1913 » Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Colombia († 2007)