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Birthday February 4, 1915

• The temperature on February 4, 1915 was between 1.6 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
  • January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
  • July 5 » The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
  • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
  • November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian banker and politician, Norwegian Minister of Industry († 1999)
• 1913 » Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist († 2005)
• 1914 » Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author and publisher († 1980)
• 1915 » Norman Wisdom, English singer-songwriter and actor († 2010)
• 1915 » William Talman, American actor and screenwriter († 1968)
• 1917 » Yahya Khan, Pakistan general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan († 1980)