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Birthday April 30, 1914

  • The temperature on April 30, 1914 was between 6.5 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
    • May 25 » The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland.
    • August 2 » The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
    • 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.
    • August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
    • September 3 » French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.

Day of death April 16, 1915

  • The temperature on April 16, 1915 was between 3.6 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
    • February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
    • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
    • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
    • 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.
    • November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1914 » Charles Beetham, American middle-distance runner († 1997)
  • 1914 » Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter († 2008)
  • 1916 » Claude Shannon, American mathematician and engineer († 2001)
  • 1916 » Paul Kuusberg, Estonian journalist and author († 2003)
  • 1916 » Robert Shaw, American conductor († 1999)
  • 1917 » Bea Wain, American singer († 2017)

Source: Wikipedia


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