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Birthday May 6, 1915

• The temperature on May 6, 1915 was between 10.2 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • January 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1913 » Stewart Granger, English-American actor († 1993)
• 1915 » Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1985)
• 1915 » Theodore H. White, American historian, journalist, and author († 1986)
• 1916 » Robert H. Dicke, American physicist and astronomer († 1997)
• 1917 » Kal Mann, American songwriter († 2001)