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Birthday February 15, 1912

• The temperature on February 15, 1912 was between -0.7 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
  • April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
  • June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
  • September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
  • December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Miep Gies, Austrian-Dutch humanitarian, helped hide Anne Frank and her family († 2010)
• 1910 » Irena Sendler, Polish nurse and humanitarian, Righteous Gentile († 2008)
• 1912 » George Mikes, Jewish Hungarian-English journalist and author († 1987)
• 1913 » Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player († 1997)
• 1914 » Hale Boggs, American lawyer and politician († 1972)
• 1914 » Kevin McCarthy, Jewish-Irish American actor († 2010)