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Birthday August 5, 1915

• The temperature on August 5, 1915 was between 8.5 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
  • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
  • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
  • August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Robert Taylor, American actor and singer († 1969)
• 1912 » Abbé Pierre, French priest and humanitarian († 2007)
• 1914 » Parley Baer, American actor († 2002)
• 1916 » Peter Viereck, American poet and academic († 2006)
• 1918 » Betty Oliphant, English-Canadian ballerina, co-founded Canada's National Ballet School († 2004)
• 1918 » Tom Drake, American actor and singer († 1982)