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Birthday January 3, 1915

• The temperature on January 3, 1915 was between 2.9 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
  • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • April 25 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Jack Levine, American painter and soldier († 2010)
• 1916 » Betty Furness, American actress and television journalist († 1994)
• 1916 » Fred Haas, American golfer († 2004)
• 1917 » Albert Mol, Dutch author and actor († 2002)
• 1917 » Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American journalist and publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux († 2004)
• 1917 » Vernon A. Walters, American general and diplomat, 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 2002)