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Birthday November 30, 1915

• The temperature on November 30, 1915 was between 3.5 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
  • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
  • June 9 » William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMSLusitania.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
  • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Gordon Parks, American photographer and director († 2006)
• 1912 » Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator († 1966)
• 1915 » Brownie McGhee, American folk-blues singer and guitarist († 1996)
• 1915 » Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1916 » Dena Epstein, American musicologist and author († 2013)
• 1918 » Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor († 2014)