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Birthday December 17, 1914

• The temperature on December 17, 1914 was between 3.8 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
  • September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
  • September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
  • September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
  • September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
  • December 15 » World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1914 » Fernando Alonso, Cuban ballet dancer, co-founded the Cuban National Ballet († 2013)
• 1914 » Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer († 2005)
• 1916 » Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet († 2000)
• 1917 » Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author, and academic († 1983)