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Birthday January 14, 1915

• The temperature on January 14, 1915 was between 8.0 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
  • January 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
  • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • 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

• 1911 » Anatoly Rybakov, Russian-American author († 1998)
• 1912 » Tillie Olsen, American short story writer († 2007)
• 1914 » Harold Russell, Canadian-American soldier and actor († 2002)
• 1914 » Selahattin Ülkümen, Turkish diplomat († 2003)
• 1915 » Mark Goodson, American game show producer, created Family Feud and The Price Is Right († 1992)
• 1919 » Giulio Andreotti, Italian journalist and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy († 2013)