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Birthday November 1, 1914

• The temperature on November 1, 1914 was between 6.3 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • July 4 » The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
  • August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
  • August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
  • September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
  • October 9 » World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
  • December 23 » World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Henri Troyat, French historian and author († 2007)
• 1911 » Mingun Sayadaw, Burmese monk and scholar († 1993)
• 1912 » Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi and author († 2012)
• 1914 » Moshe Teitelbaum, Romanian-American rabbi († 2006)
• 1915 » Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American painter, poet, and educator, co-founded the DuSable Museum of African American History († 2010)
• 1917 » Zenna Henderson, American author (d.1983)