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Birthday July 31, 1913

• The temperature on July 31, 1913 was between 11.3 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • April 24 » The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
  • May 14 » Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
  • June 19 » Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
  • June 24 » Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
  • September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
  • December 17 » A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit system.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Bill Brown, Australian cricketer († 2008)
• 1912 » Irv Kupcinet, American football player and journalist († 2003)
• 1912 » Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2006)
• 1913 » Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player († 1984)
• 1914 » Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter († 1983)
• 1914 » Paul J. Christiansen, American conductor and composer († 1997)