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Birthday June 8, 1914

• The temperature on June 8, 1914 was between 1.4 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • June 23 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
  • August 9 » Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
  • August 26 » World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
  • September 13 » World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
  • November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
  • November 28 » World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1915 » Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet († 2015)
• 1916 » Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1916 » Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter († 2007)