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Birthday April 9, 1914

• The temperature on April 9, 1914 was between 5.6 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (36%). 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.
  • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • 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 15 » A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
  • August 15 » World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
  • November 1 » World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
  • November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Lev Kopelev, Ukrainian-German author and academic († 1997)
• 1915 » Daniel Johnson Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Quebec († 1968)
• 1916 » Bill Leonard, American journalist († 1994)
• 1916 » Heinz Meyer, German Fallschirmjäger (paratrooper) during World War II († 1987)
• 1916 » Julian Dash, American swing music jazz tenor saxophonist († 1974)
• 1917 » Johannes Bobrowski, German songwriter and poet († 1965)