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Birthday June 8, 1915

• The temperature on June 8, 1915 was between 14.0 °C and 32.1 °C and averaged 22.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
  • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
  • August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, British abstract painter († 2004)
• 1915 » Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet († 2015)
• 1916 » Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1916 » Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1916 » Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator († 1992)
• 1917 » Byron White, American football player and judge († 2002)