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Birthday June 6, 1915

• The temperature on June 6, 1915 was between 12.1 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • 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 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
  • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Carlo L. Golino, Italian-American author, critic, and academic († 1991)
• 1915 » Vincent Persichetti, American pianist and composer († 1987)
• 1916 » Hamani Diori, Nigerien academic and politician, 1st President of Niger († 1989)
• 1917 » Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, founded the Tracinda Corporation († 2015)
• 1918 » Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)
• 1919 » Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, English army officer and politician, 6th Secretary General of NATO († 2018)