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Birthday April 25, 1915

• The temperature on April 25, 1915 was between 7.0 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 9.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
  • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
  • February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
  • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
  • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Nikolaos Roussen, Greek captain († 1944)
• 1914 » Ross Lockridge Jr., American author and academic († 1948)
• 1915 » Mort Weisinger, American journalist and author († 1978)
• 1916 » Jerry Barber, American golfer († 1994)
• 1917 » Ella Fitzgerald, American singer († 1996)
• 1917 » Jean Lucas, French racing driver († 2003)