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Birthday October 2, 1914

• The temperature on October 2, 1914 was between 5.9 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (28%). 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.
  • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • May 29 » The Ocean liner RMSEmpress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
  • August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
  • September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
  • October 18 » The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
  • November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Jack Finney, American author and playwright († 1995)
• 1912 » Frank Malina, American engineer and painter († 1981)
• 1914 » Bernarr Rainbow, English organist, conductor, and historian († 1998)
• 1914 » Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer († 1952)
• 1915 » Chuck Williams, American author and businessman, founded Williams Sonoma († 2015)
• 1917 » Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)