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Birthday November 15, 1914

• The temperature on November 15, 1914 was between 0.1 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • 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.
  • July 18 » The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
  • August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
  • August 23 » World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
  • November 26 » HMS Bulwark was destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic († 2010)
• 1912 » Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel († 1945)
• 1913 » Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet († 2005)
• 1913 » Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach († 2003)
• 1914 » V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge († 2014)
• 1916 » Nita Barrow, Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados († 1995)