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Birthday May 31, 1915

• The temperature on May 31, 1915 was between 2.7 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
  • July 5 » The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
  • September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
  • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2010)
• 1912 » Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American experimental physicist († 1997)
• 1914 » Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer and educator († 2006)
• 1916 » Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter († 1997)
• 1918 » Lloyd Quarterman, African American chemist († 1982)
• 1918 » Robert Osterloh, American actor († 2001)