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Birthday July 29, 1912

• The temperature on July 29, 1912 was between 12.1 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (40%). 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.
  • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
  • October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
  • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
  • December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Samm Sinclair Baker, American author († 1997)
• 1910 » Gale Page, American actress († 1983)
• 1911 » Archbishop Iakovos of America († 2005)
• 1911 » Foster Furcolo, American lawyer and politician, 60th Governor of Massachusetts († 1995)
• 1913 » Erich Priebke, German war criminal, leader of the 1944 Ardeatine massacre († 2013)
• 1914 » Irwin Corey, American actor and activist († 2017)