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Birthday April 6, 1914

• The temperature on April 6, 1914 was between 7.5 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 14.5 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
  • August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because 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.
  • September 3 » French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
  • September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1913 » Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, American geographer and academic († 1993)
• 1915 » Tadeusz Kantor, Polish director, painter, and set designer († 1990)
• 1916 » Phil Leeds, American actor († 1998)
• 1916 » Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist and author († 1987)
• 1917 » Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author († 2011)