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Birthday April 3, 1914

• The temperature on April 3, 1914 was between 2.7 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • August 6 » World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
  • August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
  • August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
  • September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
  • November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.
  • December 25 » A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-English author († 1982)
• 1913 » Per Borten, Norwegian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Norway († 2005)
• 1914 » Ray Getliffe, Canadian ice hockey player († 2008)
• 1914 » Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal († 2008)
• 1915 » İhsan Doğramacı, Turkish physician and academic († 2010)
• 1915 » Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval officer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 2016)