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Birthday July 1, 1915

• The temperature on July 1, 1915 was between 9.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • January 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
  • January 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
  • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
  • July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Thomas Pearson, British Army officer († 2019)
• 1915 » Boots Poffenberger, American baseball player († 1999)
• 1915 » Joseph Ransohoff, American soldier and neurosurgeon († 2001)
• 1915 » Nguyễn Văn Linh, Vietnamese politician († 1998)
• 1915 » Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, British peer († 2000)
• 1915 » Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter, bass player, guitarist and producer († 1992)