Moore Tree » George Joseph Laughton (1915-)

Birthday August 18, 1915

• The temperature on August 18, 1915 was between 11.3 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (35%). 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.
  • January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
  • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
  • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
  • May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
  • June 9 » William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMSLusitania.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist († 1983)
• 1914 » Lucy Ozarin, United States Navy lieutenant commander and psychiatrist († 2017)
• 1915 » Max Lanier, American baseball player and manager († 2007)
• 1916 » Moura Lympany, English pianist († 2005)
• 1916 » Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, journalist, and diplomat († 2018)
• 1917 » Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense († 2006)