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Birthday November 16, 1912

• The temperature on November 16, 1912 was between 5.7 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
  • May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
  • October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
  • October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
  • December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Mirza Nasir Ahmad, Indian-Pakistani religious leader († 1982)
• 1912 » George O. Petrie, American actor and director († 1997)
• 1912 » W. E. D. Ross, Canadian actor, playwright, and author († 1995)
• 1913 » Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress († 2015)
• 1914 » Eddie Chapman, English spy († 1997)
• 1915 » Jean Fritz, Chinese-American author († 2017)