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Birthday October 2, 1915

• The temperature on October 2, 1915 was between 2.2 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (42%). 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 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
  • January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
  • March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Frank Malina, American engineer and painter († 1981)
• 1914 » Bernarr Rainbow, English organist, conductor, and historian († 1998)
• 1914 » Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer († 1952)
• 1915 » Chuck Williams, American author and businessman, founded Williams Sonoma († 2015)
• 1917 » Charles Drake, American actor († 1994)
• 1917 » Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)