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Birthday January 31, 1912

• The temperature on January 31, 1912 was between -1.6 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
  • November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
  • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Miron Grindea, Romanian-English journalist († 1995)
• 1913 » Don Hutson, American football player and coach († 1997)
• 1914 » Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer and police officer († 1994)
• 1915 » Alan Lomax, American historian, author, and scholar († 2002)
• 1915 » Bobby Hackett, American trumpet player and cornet player († 1976)
• 1915 » Thomas Merton, American monk and author († 1968)