Familie Bolle Van Ham » Victor Emile de Gruiter (1914-)

Birthday June 10, 1914

• The temperature on June 10, 1914 was between 5.8 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
  • August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
  • August 15 » A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
  • August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
  • October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
  • December 23 » World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1914 » Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright († 1988)
• 1915 » Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1916 » Peride Celal, Turkish author († 2013)