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Birthday June 15, 1915

• The temperature on June 15, 1915 was between 5.3 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (83%). 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 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 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
  • February 19 » World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
  • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Hilda Terry, American cartoonist († 2006)
• 1914 » Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist († 1999)
• 1914 » Yuri Andropov, Russian politician († 1984)
• 1915 » Nini Theilade, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer, and educator († 2018)
• 1915 » Thomas Huckle Weller, American biologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)
• 1916 » Olga Erteszek, Polish-American fashion designer († 1989)