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Birthday September 14, 1915

• The temperature on September 14, 1915 was between 9.8 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
  • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1914 » Mae Boren Axton, American composer and educator († 1997)
• 1915 » John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author, designed the Dobsonian telescope († 2014)
• 1916 » Eric Bentley, English-American singer, playwright, and critic
• 1916 » John Heyer, Australian director and producer († 2001)