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Birthday October 7, 1915

• The temperature on October 7, 1915 was between 4.8 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
  • February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
  • March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist, guitarist, and composer († 1949)
• 1913 » Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and author († 1987)
• 1914 » Alfred Drake, American actor and singer († 1992)
• 1914 » Begum Akhtar, Indian actress († 1974)
• 1914 » Herman Keiser, American golfer († 2003)
• 1914 » Sarah Churchill, English actress († 1982)