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Birthday January 18, 1914

• The temperature on January 18, 1914 was between -5.9 °C and 0.8 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
  • August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
  • August 17 » World War I: Battle of Stallupönen: The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
  • September 5 » World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
  • September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
  • October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Carroll Cloar, American artist († 1993)
• 1913 » Giannis Papaioannou, Greek composer († 1972)
• 1914 » Arno Schmidt, German author and translator († 1979)
• 1914 » Vitomil Zupan, Slovene author, poet, and playwright († 1987)
• 1915 » Santiago Carrillo, Spanish soldier and politician († 2012)
• 1915 » Syl Apps, Canadian pole vaulter, ice hockey player, and politician († 1998)