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Birthday July 21, 1915

• The temperature on July 21, 1915 was between 11.6 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
  • May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
  • September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and theorist († 1980)
• 1911 » Umashankar Joshi, Indian author, poet, and scholar († 1988)
• 1914 » Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower († 1977)
• 1917 » Alan B. Gold, Canadian lawyer and jurist († 2005)
• 1920 » Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, sculptor, and illustrator († 2005)
• 1920 » Isaac Stern, Polish violinist and conductor († 2001)