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Birthday July 8, 1914

• The temperature on July 8, 1914 was between 6.9 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
  • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
  • April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
  • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • August 2 » The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
  • August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.

Source: Wikipedia

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