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Birthday August 28, 1915

• The temperature on August 28, 1915 was between 8.1 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • 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.
  • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright († 1995)
• 1915 » Max Robertson, Bengal-born English sportscaster and author († 2009)
• 1915 » Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator († 2008)
• 1916 » C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author († 1962)
• 1916 » Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer and actress († 1997)
• 1916 » Jack Vance, American author († 2013)