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Birthday June 28, 1915

• The temperature on June 28, 1915 was between 11.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
  • August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
  • September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher († 2007)
• 1913 » Franz Antel, Austrian director and producer († 2007)
• 1913 » George Lloyd, English soldier and composer († 1998)
• 1913 » Walter Oesau, German colonel and pilot († 1944)
• 1914 » Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician and Nazi war criminal († 1992)
• 1917 » A. E. Hotchner, American author and playwright († 2020)