Dreyer Tree » Maria Magdalena Dreyer (1915-)

Birthday April 3, 1915

• The temperature on April 3, 1915 was between 5.1 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • January 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
  • 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.
  • August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Ray Getliffe, Canadian ice hockey player († 2008)
• 1914 » Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal († 2008)
• 1915 » İhsan Doğramacı, Turkish physician and academic († 2010)
• 1915 » Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval officer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 2016)
• 1916 » Cliff Gladwin, English cricketer († 1988)
• 1916 » Herb Caen, American journalist and author († 1997)