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Birthday September 21, 1914

• The temperature on September 21, 1914 was between 7.6 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • April 21 » Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
  • June 23 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
  • July 11 » USSNevada(BB-36) is launched.
  • July 28 » In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
  • August 17 » World War I: Battle of Stallupönen: The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
  • August 20 » World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Meinrad Schütter, Swiss composer († 2006)
• 1912 » Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter († 2002)
• 1912 » György Sándor, Hungarian pianist and composer († 2005)
• 1916 » Françoise Giroud, Swiss-French journalist and politician, French Minister of Culture († 2003)
• 1917 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and academic († 1968)
• 1918 » John Gofman, American physicist, chemist, and biologist († 2007)