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Birthday February 10, 1914

• The temperature on February 10, 1914 was between 3.9 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 11 » USSNevada(BB-36) is launched.
  • August 21 » World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
  • August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
  • September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
  • September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
  • December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator († 2000)
• 1909 » Min Thu Wun, Burmese poet, scholar, and politician († 2004)
• 1910 » Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate († 1969)
• 1914 » Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor († 2001)
• 1915 » Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor († 2016)
• 1919 » Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece († 2014)