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Birthday December 2, 1915

• The temperature on December 2, 1915 was between 3.5 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
  • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
  • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
  • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
  • July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1914 » Adolph Green, American playwright and composer († 2002)
• 1914 » Bill Erwin, American actor († 2010)
• 1915 » Takahito, Prince Mikasa of Japan († 2016)
• 1916 » Howard Finster, American minister and painter († 2001)
• 1917 » Sylvia Syms, American singer († 1992)