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Birthday November 30, 1915

• The temperature on November 30, 1915 was between 3.5 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • July 5 » The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
  • November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Gordon Parks, American photographer and director († 2006)
• 1912 » Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator († 1966)
• 1915 » Brownie McGhee, American folk-blues singer and guitarist († 1996)
• 1915 » Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1916 » Dena Epstein, American musicologist and author († 2013)
• 1918 » Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor († 2014)