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Birthday August 2, 1914

• The temperature on August 2, 1914 was between 14.3 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 13.2 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (25%). 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • July 4 » The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
  • July 18 » The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
  • July 28 » In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Palle Huld, Danish actor († 2010)
• 1913 » Xavier Thaninayagam, Sri Lankan scholar and academic († 1980)
• 1914 » Beatrice Straight, American actress († 2001)
• 1914 » Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2012)
• 1914 » Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet († 1988)
• 1915 » Gary Merrill, American actor († 1990)