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Birthday November 7, 1915

• The temperature on November 7, 1915 was between -0.6 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
  • January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
  • 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.
  • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
  • July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
  • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1960)
• 1913 » Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1914 » Archie Campbell, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1914 » R. A. Lafferty, American soldier, engineer, and author († 2002)
• 1915 » M. Athalie Range, American activist and politician († 2006)
• 1915 » Philip Morrison, American astrophysicist and academic († 2005)