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Birthday June 11, 1914

• The temperature on June 11, 1914 was between 9.7 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • July 23 » Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
  • July 29 » The Cape Cod Canal opened.
  • August 30 » World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
  • September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
  • November 15 » Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » James Algar, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1998)
• 1913 » Risë Stevens, American soprano and actress († 2013)
• 1913 » Vince Lombardi, American football player, coach, and manager († 1970)
• 1914 » Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic († 2012)
• 1915 » Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress († 1997)
• 1915 » Nicholas Metropolis, American mathematician and physicist († 1999)