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Birthday June 10, 1914

• The temperature on June 10, 1914 was between 5.1 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • August 3 » World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
  • September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
  • September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
  • November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
  • November 15 » Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Jean Lesage, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Premier of Quebec († 1980)
• 1913 » Benjamin Shapira, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1993)
• 1913 » Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer († 2007)
• 1914 » Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright († 1988)
• 1915 » Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1916 » Peride Celal, Turkish author († 2013)