Genealogy Mundorff » Marcellus Julius Hoste (1914-)

Birthday May 28, 1914

• The temperature on May 28, 1914 was between 5.9 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
  • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • July 23 » Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
  • September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
  • October 29 » Ottoman entry into World War I.
  • December 25 » A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1912 » Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1990)
• 1912 » Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer († 1981)
• 1914 » W. G. G. Duncan Smith, English captain and pilot († 1996)
• 1915 » Joseph Greenberg, American linguist and academic († 2001)
• 1916 » Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist († 1990)