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Birthday June 20, 1914

• The temperature on June 20, 1914 was between 8.5 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (65%). 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.
  • July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
  • August 4 » In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
  • 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 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
  • September 17 » World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
  • November 13 » Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Anthony Buckeridge, English author († 2004)
• 1912 » Jack Torrance, American shot putter and football player († 1969)
• 1914 » Gordon Juckes, Canadian ice hockey player († 1994)
• 1914 » Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Turkish archaeologist and academic
• 1915 » Dick Reynolds, Australian footballer and coach († 2002)
• 1915 » Terence Young, Chinese-English director and screenwriter († 1994)