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Birthday October 4, 1915

• The temperature on October 4, 1915 was between 6.6 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
  • May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
  • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
  • 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.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Martial Célestin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti († 2011)
• 1914 » Brendan Gill, American journalist and essayist († 1997)
• 1914 » Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia († 2003)
• 1916 » George Sidney, American director and producer († 2002)
• 1916 » Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host († 2006)
• 1916 » Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)