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Birthday June 8, 1914

• The temperature on June 8, 1914 was between 1.4 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
  • June 12 » Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
  • August 12 » World War I: The Battle of Halen a.k.a. Battle of the Silver Helmets a clash between large Belgian and German cavalry formations at Halen, Belgium.
  • August 24 » World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
  • September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
  • December 23 » World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Harry Holtzman, American painter († 1987)
• 1912 » Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician († 1989)
• 1912 » Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, British abstract painter († 2004)
• 1915 » Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet († 2015)
• 1916 » Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1916 » Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter († 2007)