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Birthday February 8, 1915

  • The temperature on February 8, 1915 was between 3.7 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
    • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
    • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
    • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
    • 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.
    • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

Day of death December 16, 1915

  • The temperature on December 16, 1915 was between 0.1 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
    • March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
    • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
    • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
    • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
    • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
    • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).


Same birth/death day

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Source: Wikipedia

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About the surname Van der Els


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