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Birthday May 21, 1912

• The temperature on May 21, 1912 was between 8.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
  • May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
  • October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
  • November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
  • November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Chen Dayu, Chinese painter and calligrapher († 2001)
• 1912 » John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist and academic († 1986)
• 1912 » Monty Stratton, American baseball player and coach († 1982)
• 1913 » Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer († 1976)
• 1915 » Cathleen Cordell, American actress († 1997)
• 1915 » Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, Indian Civil Service Officer and former Under Secretary-General of the UN († 2003)