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Birthday June 28, 1914

• The temperature on June 28, 1914 was between 8.5 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (74%). 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.
  • July 29 » The Cape Cod Canal opened.
  • September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
  • September 3 » French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.
  • October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
  • November 26 » HMS Bulwark was destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness.
  • December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher († 2007)
• 1913 » Franz Antel, Austrian director and producer († 2007)
• 1913 » George Lloyd, English soldier and composer († 1998)
• 1913 » Walter Oesau, German colonel and pilot († 1944)
• 1914 » Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician and Nazi war criminal († 1992)
• 1917 » A. E. Hotchner, American author and playwright († 2020)