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Birthday September 19, 1915

• The temperature on September 19, 1915 was between 5.6 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (78%). 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 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
  • January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
  • February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
  • May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
  • 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.
  • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Kurt Sanderling, Polish-German conductor († 2011)
• 1912 » Reuben David, Indian veterinarian and zoo founder († 1989)
• 1913 » Frances Farmer, American actress († 1970)
• 1913 » Helen Ward, American singer († 1998)
• 1915 » Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer, and producer († 1973)
• 1918 » Pablita Velarde, Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) painter († 2006)