Kennedy Family Tree » Arthur Leslie Hayes (1914-1999)

Birthday October 18, 1914

• The temperature on October 18, 1914 was between 6.8 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • January 9 » The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
  • April 21 » Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
  • August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
  • August 27 » World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
  • November 1 » World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMSGood Hope and HMSMonmouth.
  • November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and theorist († 2004)
• 1914 » Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer († 1997)
• 1915 » Victor Sen Yung, American actor († 1980)
• 1918 » Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor († 1999)
• 1918 » Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek lawyer and politician, 178th Prime Minister of Greece († 2017)
• 1918 » Molly Geertsema, Dutch lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 1991)