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Birthday February 11, 1915

• The temperature on February 11, 1915 was between -0.3 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
  • June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
  • July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
  • 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

• 1912 » Rudolf Firkušný, Czech-American pianist and educator († 1994)
• 1914 » Josh White, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1969)
• 1914 » Matt Dennis, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2002)
• 1915 » Patrick Leigh Fermor, English soldier, author, and scholar († 2011)
• 1915 » Richard Hamming, American mathematician and academic († 1998)
• 1917 » Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter († 2007)