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Birthday May 25, 1915

• The temperature on May 25, 1915 was between 11.5 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
  • July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
  • July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
  • September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot († 1957)
• 1913 » Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and producer († 1965)
• 1916 » Brian Dickson, Canadian captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th Chief Justice of Canada († 1998)
• 1916 » Giuseppe Tosi, Italian discus thrower († 1981)
• 1917 » Steve Cochran, American film, television and stage actor († 1965)
• 1917 » Theodore Hesburgh, American priest, theologian, and academic († 2015)