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Birthday April 11, 1915

• The temperature on April 11, 1915 was between 1.0 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (21%). 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.
  • May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
  • 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.
  • August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
  • 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

• 1913 » Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer († 2006)
• 1914 » Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, American mathematician († 1988)
• 1914 » Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator, director, and producer († 1987)
• 1914 » Robert Stanfield, Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician, 17th Premier of Nova Scotia († 2003)
• 1916 » Alberto Ginastera, Argentinian-Swiss pianist and composer († 1983)
• 1916 » Howard W. Koch, American director and producer († 2001)