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Birthday March 4, 1914

• The temperature on March 4, 1914 was between 5.5 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • July 18 » The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
  • August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
  • October 18 » The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
  • November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.
  • November 13 » Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » John Garfield, American actor and singer († 1952)
• 1913 » Taos Amrouche, Algerian singer and author († 1976)
• 1914 » Barbara Newhall Follett, American author († 1939)
• 1914 » Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor, and architect († 2000)
• 1914 » Ward Kimball, American animator, producer, and screenwriter († 2002)
• 1915 » László Csatáry, Hungarian art dealer († 2013)