Family tree Meijer » Felicitas Anna van Reuss zu Kostritz (1914-± 1989)

Birthday July 5, 1914

• The temperature on July 5, 1914 was between 13.7 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • April 20 » Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners' strike.
  • July 4 » The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
  • August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
  • 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.
  • September 5 » World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » George Costakis, Russian art collector († 1990)
• 1913 » Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1966)
• 1914 » Annie Fischer, Hungarian pianist and composer († 1995)
• 1914 » John Thomas Dunlop, American administrator and labor scholar († 2003)
• 1915 » Babe Paley, American socialite († 1978)
• 1915 » John Woodruff, American runner and commander († 2007)