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Birthday October 10, 1914

• The temperature on October 10, 1914 was between 5.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
  • May 17 » The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
  • August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
  • September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
  • September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Clare Hollingworth, English journalist and author († 2017)
• 1912 » Ram Vilas Sharma, Indian poet and critic († 2000)
• 1913 » Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1914 » Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1974)
• 1914 » Tommy Fine, American baseball player and businessman († 2005)
• 1915 » Harry Edison, American trumpet player and composer († 1999)