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Birthday August 6, 1914

• The temperature on August 6, 1914 was between 13.7 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • August 14 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
  • August 15 » A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
  • November 23 » Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
  • December 14 » Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman († 1989)
• 1911 » Norman Gordon, South African cricketer († 2014)
• 1912 » Richard C. Miller, American photographer († 2010)
• 1914 » Gordon Freeth, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs († 2001)
• 1916 » Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta († 2012)
• 1916 » Richard Hofstadter, American historian and academic († 1970)