Genealogy Richard en Marquardt » marguerite CHANOINE (1914-2000)

Birthday November 4, 1914

• The temperature on November 4, 1914 was between 3.7 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
  • August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
  • August 9 » Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
  • August 14 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
  • September 17 » World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
  • November 1 » World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMSGood Hope and HMSMonmouth.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Carlos "Botong" Francisco, Filipino painter († 1969)
• 1912 » Vadim Salmanov, Russian pianist and composer († 1978)
• 1913 » Gig Young, American actor († 1978)
• 1914 » Carlos Castillo Armas, Authoritarian ruler of Guatemala (1954-1957) († 1957)
• 1915 » Ismail Abdul Rahman, Malaysian politician († 1973)
• 1915 » Marguerite Patten, English economist and author († 2015)