Bailey Monroe Smith Family Tree » Infant Pack (1915-1915)

Birthday May 30, 1915

• The temperature on May 30, 1915 was between 4.7 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
  • July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
  • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
  • September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Erich Bagge, German physicist and academic († 1996)
• 1912 » Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1914 » Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna († 1979)
• 1915 » Len Carney, English footballer and soldier († 1996)
• 1916 » Justin Catayée, French soldier and politician († 1962)
• 1916 » Mort Meskin, American illustrator († 1995)