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Birthday February 1, 1914

• The temperature on February 1, 1914 was between 2.8 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 6.4 °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.
  • January 1 » The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
  • August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
  • August 15 » A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
  • August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
  • August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
  • September 3 » William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Chinese general and politician († 2009)
• 1915 » Stanley Matthews, English footballer and manager († 2000)
• 1917 » Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player and soldier († 1944)
• 1917 » José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author († 2013)
• 1918 » Ignacy Tokarczuk, Polish archbishop († 2012)
• 1918 » Muriel Spark, Scottish playwright and poet († 2006)