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Birthday September 15, 1915

• The temperature on September 15, 1915 was between 9.3 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • 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.
  • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
  • July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
  • August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1914 » Orhan Kemal, Turkish author († 1970)
• 1915 » Al Casey, American guitarist and composer († 2005)
• 1915 » Albert Whitlock, English-American special effects designer († 1999)
• 1915 » Fawn M. Brodie, American historian and author († 1981)