Descendants Rhemrev » Cecille von Ranzow (1915-)

Birthday April 16, 1915

• The temperature on April 16, 1915 was between 3.4 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Les Tremayne, English actor († 2003)
• 1914 » John Hodiak, American actor († 1955)
• 1915 » Robert Speck, Canadian politician, 1st Mayor of Mississauga († 1972)
• 1916 » Behçet Necatigil, Turkish author, poet, and translator († 1979)
• 1917 » Barry Nelson, American actor († 2007)
• 1917 » Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli († 2013)