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Birthday July 12, 1913

• The temperature on July 12, 1913 was between 7.2 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • February 21 » Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
  • June 25 » American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
  • July 12 » Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
  • September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
  • December 1 » The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
  • December 21 » Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Evald Mikson, Estonian footballer († 1993)
• 1913 » Willis Lamb, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)
• 1914 » Mohammad Moin, Iranian linguist and lexicographer († 1971)
• 1915 » Emanuel Papper, American anesthesiologist, professor, and author († 2002)
• 1915 » Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, († 2007)
• 1916 » Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper († 1974)