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Birthday January 29, 1914

• The temperature on January 29, 1914 was between 1.9 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • August 2 » The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
  • August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
  • August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
  • September 18 » The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
  • October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
  • November 16 » The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Victor Mature, American actor († 1999)
• 1915 » Bill Peet, American author and illustrator († 2002)
• 1915 » John Serry Sr., Italian-American concert accordionist and composer (d.2003)
• 1917 » John Raitt, American actor and singer († 2005)
• 1918 » John Forsythe, American actor († 2010)
• 1921 » Geraldine Pittman Woods, American science administrator and embryologist († 1999)