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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 13 » The 6.7 M_w  Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978–32,610.
  • February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.

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• 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)