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Birthday November 10, 1915

• The temperature on November 10, 1915 was between 3.8 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
  • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
  • March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
  • May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
  • July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
  • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager († 1999)
• 1913 » Karl Shapiro, American poet and academic († 2000)
• 1916 » Billy May, American trumpet player and composer († 2004)
• 1916 » Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter and illustrator († 2012)
• 1918 » Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2007)
• 1918 » Sir Yue-Kong (Y.K.) Pao, founder of Hong Kong's World-Wide Shipping Group († 1991)