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Birthday June 22, 1915

• The temperature on June 22, 1915 was between 6.9 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
  • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
  • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
  • May 7 » The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • 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

• 1914 » Mei Zhi, Chinese author and essayist († 2004)
• 1915 » Cornelius Warmerdam, American pole vaulter and coach († 2001)
• 1915 » Dolf van der Linden, Dutch conductor and composer († 1999)
• 1915 » Randolph Hokanson, American pianist († 2018)
• 1915 » Thomas Quinn Curtiss, American writer, and film and theatre critic († 2000)
• 1916 » Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer († 1982)