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Birthday March 19, 1912

• The temperature on March 19, 1912 was between 4.4 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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.
  • January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
  • 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 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
  • May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
  • November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Louis Hayward, South African-born American actor († 1985)
• 1910 » Joseph Carroll, American general († 1991)
• 1912 » Hugh Watt, Australian-New Zealand engineer and politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1980)
• 1914 » Jay Berwanger, American football player and coach († 2002)
• 1914 » Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician and theorist († 1981)
• 1915 » Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient († 1944)