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Birthday December 20, 1915

• The temperature on December 20, 1915 was between -1.4 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
  • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
  • July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
  • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
  • 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

• 1914 » Harry F. Byrd Jr., American lieutenant, publisher, and politician († 2013)
• 1915 » Aziz Nesin, Turkish author and poet († 1995)
• 1916 » Michel Chartrand, Canadian trade union leader and activist († 2010)
• 1917 » Audrey Totter, American actress († 2013)
• 1917 » Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author († 1997)
• 1917 » David Bohm, American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher († 1992)