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Birthday September 14, 1915

• The temperature on September 14, 1915 was between 9.8 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (71%). 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.
  • January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
  • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
  • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala († 1971)
• 1914 » Clayton Moore, American actor († 1999)
• 1914 » Mae Boren Axton, American composer and educator († 1997)
• 1915 » John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author, designed the Dobsonian telescope († 2014)
• 1916 » Eric Bentley, English-American singer, playwright, and critic
• 1916 » John Heyer, Australian director and producer († 2001)