Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Berendina van den Hoorn (1915-)

Birthday October 14, 1915

• The temperature on October 14, 1915 was between 5.8 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
  • June 9 » William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMSLusitania.
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
  • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
  • September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Alexis Rannit, Estonian poet and critic († 1985)
• 1914 » Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach († 2004)
• 1914 » Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2006)
• 1915 » Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal († 2016)
• 1916 » C. Everett Koop, American admiral and surgeon, 13th United States Surgeon General († 2013)
• 1918 » Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist, journalist, and politician († 1991)