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Birthday June 29, 1914

• The temperature on June 29, 1914 was between 10.8 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
  • August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
  • August 9 » Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
  • October 18 » The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
  • November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.
  • December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Émile Peynaud, French oenologist and academic († 2004)
• 1912 » John Toland, American historian and author († 2004)
• 1912 » José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican pianist, composer, and conductor († 1958)
• 1913 » Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter († 1992)
• 1914 » Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek-American mathematician and academic († 1976)
• 1914 » Rafael Kubelík, Czech-American conductor and composer († 1996)