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Birthday February 1, 1915

• The temperature on February 1, 1915 was between -1.5 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
  • January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
  • 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.
  • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
  • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Chinese general and politician († 2009)
• 1915 » Stanley Matthews, English footballer and manager († 2000)
• 1917 » Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player and soldier († 1944)
• 1917 » José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author († 2013)
• 1918 » Ignacy Tokarczuk, Polish archbishop († 2012)
• 1918 » Muriel Spark, Scottish playwright and poet († 2006)