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Birthday March 26, 1914

• The temperature on March 26, 1914 was between -0.2 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
  • May 29 » The Ocean liner RMSEmpress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
  • July 29 » The Cape Cod Canal opened.
  • August 28 » World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
  • September 3 » William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
  • September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Jacqueline de Romilly, Jewish Franco-Greek philologist, author, and scholar († 2010)
• 1913 » Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic († 1996)
• 1914 » Toru Kumon, Japanese mathematician and academic († 1995)
• 1914 » William Westmoreland, American general († 2005)
• 1915 » Hwang Sun-won, North Korean author and poet († 2000)
• 1915 » Lennart Strandberg, Swedish sprinter († 1989)