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Birthday July 24, 1914

• The temperature on July 24, 1914 was between 12.2 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 14.2 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • 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.
  • June 23 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
  • August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
  • September 3 » French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.
  • September 13 » World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
  • September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Essie Summers, New Zealand author († 1998)
• 1913 » Britton Chance, American biologist and sailor († 2010)
• 1914 » Alan Waddell, Australian walker († 2008)
• 1914 » Ed Mirvish, American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist († 2007)
• 1914 » Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician († 2015)
• 1915 » Enrique Fernando, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines († 2004)