Genealogy Richard Remmé, The Hague, Netherlands » Kelsie Brunise Williams (1915-1982)

Birthday March 19, 1915

• The temperature on March 19, 1915 was between -2.2 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 9.3 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
  • 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.
  • August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
  • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Jay Berwanger, American football player and coach († 2002)
• 1914 » Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician and theorist († 1981)
• 1915 » Patricia Morison, American actress and singer († 2018)
• 1915 » Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient († 1944)
• 1916 » Eric Christmas, English-Canadian actor († 2000)
• 1916 » Irving Wallace, American journalist, author, and screenwriter († 1990)