Jan Borren » Gerrit van de Kolk (1915-)

Birthday November 11, 1915

• The temperature on November 11, 1915 was between 3.8 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 4 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
  • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • February 19 » World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
  • October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
  • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

Source: Wikipedia

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