Family tree Steinmeier/De Vries » Jacob van Liere (1915-)

Birthday August 3, 1915

• The temperature on August 3, 1915 was between 13.0 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 11.9 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • 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 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
  • May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
  • September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
  • October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Fritz Hellwig, German politician († 2017)
• 1913 » Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer († 2007)
• 1916 » José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager († 1978)
• 1916 » Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and songwriter († 1970)
• 1917 » Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader († 1995)
• 1918 » James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author († 2014)