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Birthday July 7, 1914

• The temperature on July 7, 1914 was between 8.0 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
  • April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
  • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • October 18 » The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
  • December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
  • December 24 » World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Doris McCarthy, Canadian painter and author († 2010)
• 1911 » Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American composer († 2007)
• 1913 » Pinetop Perkins, American singer and pianist († 2011)
• 1915 » Margaret Walker, American novelist and poet († 1998)
• 1917 » Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran general and politician, President of El Salvador († 2003)
• 1917 » Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer († 2014)