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Birthday January 23, 1915

• The temperature on January 23, 1915 was between -1.5 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The 6.7 M_w  Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978–32,610.
  • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
  • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
  • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
  • July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Jean-Michel Atlan, Algerian-French painter († 1960)
• 1915 » Herma Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower and handball player († 2003)
• 1915 » Potter Stewart, American lawyer and judge († 1985)
• 1915 » W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian-Barbadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1916 » Airey Neave, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland († 1979)
• 1916 » David Douglas Duncan, American photographer and journalist († 2018)