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Birthday January 10, 1915

• The temperature on January 10, 1915 was between 0.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 4 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 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • 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.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • 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.
  • May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
  • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Pierre Cogan, French cyclist († 2013)
• 1914 » Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 23rd Premier of the Republic of China († 2000)
• 1915 » Cynthia Freeman, American author († 1988)
• 1915 » Dean Dixon, American-Swiss conductor († 1976)
• 1916 » Eldzier Cortor, American painter († 2015)
• 1916 » Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)