Descendants Peter Schutten » Margrietha Stuij van den Herik (1914-)

Birthday February 1, 1914

• The temperature on February 1, 1914 was between 2.7 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • July 4 » The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
  • August 6 » World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
  • September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
  • September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • October 19 » First World War: The First Battle of Ypres begins.
  • November 2 » World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1915 » Stanley Matthews, English footballer and manager († 2000)
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• 1918 » Ignacy Tokarczuk, Polish archbishop († 2012)
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