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Birthday January 10, 1915

• The temperature on January 10, 1915 was between 0.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
  • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
  • July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Pierre Cogan, French cyclist († 2013)
• 1914 » Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 23rd Premier of the Republic of China († 2000)
• 1915 » Cynthia Freeman, American author († 1988)
• 1915 » Dean Dixon, American-Swiss conductor († 1976)
• 1916 » Eldzier Cortor, American painter († 2015)
• 1916 » Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)