Dreyer Tree » Thomas Frederik Lindeque (1914-)

Birthday September 22, 1914

• The temperature on September 22, 1914 was between 6.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • August 9 » Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
  • August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of 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 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.
  • November 13 » Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
  • December 24 » World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » György Faludy, Hungarian poet and author († 2006)
• 1912 » Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic († 2011)
• 1912 » Martha Scott, American actress († 2003)
• 1913 » Lillian Chestney, American painter and illustrator († 2000)
• 1915 » Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer († 2012)
• 1918 » Hans Scholl, German activist († 1943)