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Birthday March 4, 1915

• The temperature on March 4, 1915 was between 6.0 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
  • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
  • May 7 » The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
  • July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
  • 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.
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Barbara Newhall Follett, American author († 1939)
• 1914 » Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor, and architect († 2000)
• 1914 » Ward Kimball, American animator, producer, and screenwriter († 2002)
• 1915 » Carlos Surinach, Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor († 1997)
• 1915 » Frank Sleeman, Australian lieutenant and politician, Lord Mayor of Brisbane († 2000)
• 1915 » László Csatáry, Hungarian art dealer († 2013)