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Birthday May 20, 1915

• The temperature on May 20, 1915 was between 9.7 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (9%). 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
  • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
  • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • 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.
  • June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Joff Ellen, Australian comedian and actor († 1999)
• 1915 » Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1981)
• 1915 » Peter Copley, English actor († 2008)
• 1916 » Alexey Maresyev, Russian soldier and pilot († 2001)
• 1916 » Ondina Valla, Italian sprinter and hurdler († 2006)
• 1916 » Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic († 2015)