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Birthday October 9, 1914

• The temperature on October 9, 1914 was between 7.8 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • April 21 » Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
  • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • 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 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
  • September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Joe Rosenthal, American photographer († 2006)
• 1914 » Edward Andrews, American actor († 1985)
• 1915 » Belva Plain, American author († 2010)
• 1915 » Clifford M. Hardin, American academic and politician, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture († 2010)
• 1918 » Charles Read, Australian air marshal († 2014)
• 1918 » E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer and author († 2007)