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Birthday January 19, 1915

• The temperature on January 19, 1915 was between -1.5 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • February 19 » World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
  • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
  • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
  • 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.
  • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Choor Singh, Indian-Singaporean lawyer and judge († 2009)
• 1912 » Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1913 » Rex Ingamells, Australian author and poet († 1955)
• 1913 » Rudolf Wanderone, American professional pocket billiards player († 1996)
• 1918 » John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company († 2005)
• 1920 » Bernard Dunstan, English painter and educator († 2017)