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Birthday October 25, 1914

• The temperature on October 25, 1914 was between 8.3 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • January 9 » The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
  • June 23 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
  • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
  • August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
  • December 24 » World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Abdelkader Ben Bouali, French footballer († 1997)
• 1912 » Alfred Klingler, German field handballer
• 1913 » Anton Kochinyan, Soviet-Armenian politician († 1990)
• 1913 » Klaus Barbie, German SS captain († 1991)
• 1914 » John Berryman, American poet and scholar († 1972)
• 1915 » Ivan M. Niven, Canadian-American mathematician and academic († 1999)