Genealogy Wylie » James Williams Strowd (1914-)

Birthday June 6, 1914

• The temperature on June 6, 1914 was between 4.3 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (28%). 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.
  • March 1 » The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • July 29 » The Cape Cod Canal opened.
  • August 15 » A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
  • August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  • September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian and philosopher († 1997)
• 1913 » Carlo L. Golino, Italian-American author, critic, and academic († 1991)
• 1915 » Vincent Persichetti, American pianist and composer († 1987)
• 1916 » Hamani Diori, Nigerien academic and politician, 1st President of Niger († 1989)
• 1917 » Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, founded the Tracinda Corporation († 2015)
• 1918 » Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)