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Birthday November 22, 1912

• The temperature on November 22, 1912 was between 3.0 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
  • October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
  • 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

• 1911 » Ralph Guldahl, American golfer († 1987)
• 1912 » Doris Duke, American art collector and philanthropist († 1993)
• 1913 » Benjamin Britten, English pianist, composer, and conductor († 1976)
• 1913 » Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino lawyer and jurist († 2006)
• 1913 » Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player and coach († 2016)
• 1913 » Jacqueline Vaudecrane, French figure skater and coach († 2018)