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Birthday September 15, 1915

• The temperature on September 15, 1915 was between 9.9 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
  • January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
  • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
  • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author († 1999)
• 1914 » Creighton Abrams, American general († 1974)
• 1914 » Orhan Kemal, Turkish author († 1970)
• 1915 » Al Casey, American guitarist and composer († 2005)
• 1915 » Albert Whitlock, English-American special effects designer († 1999)
• 1915 » Fawn M. Brodie, American historian and author († 1981)