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Birthday August 14, 1914

• The temperature on August 14, 1914 was between 10.6 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
  • September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
  • October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
  • November 13 » Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
  • December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic († 1985)
• 1913 » Hector Crawford, Australian director and producer († 1991)
• 1913 » Paul Dean, American baseball player († 1981)
• 1914 » Herman Branson, American physicist, chemist, and academic († 1995)
• 1915 » B. A. Santamaria, Australian political activist and publisher († 1998)
• 1916 » Frank and John Craighead, American naturalists (twins, Frank d. 2001, John d. 2016)