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Birthday January 26, 1914

• The temperature on January 26, 1914 was between 0.1 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
  • August 12 » World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
  • August 14 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
  • August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
  • September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
  • September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor († 2002)
• 1911 » Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1993)
• 1913 » Jimmy Van Heusen, American pianist and composer († 1990)
• 1914 » Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire († 2006)
• 1915 » William Hopper, American actor († 1970)
• 1917 » Louis Zamperini, American runner and captain († 2014)