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Birthday March 16, 1914

• The temperature on March 16, 1914 was between 4.9 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 13.2 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
  • August 6 » World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
  • August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
  • October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
  • November 5 » World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Pierre Harmel, Belgian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium († 2009)
• 1912 » Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States († 1993)
• 1913 » Rémy Raffalli, French soldier († 1952)
• 1915 » Kunihiko Kodaira, Japanese mathematician and academic († 1997)
• 1916 » Mercedes McCambridge, American actress († 2004)
• 1916 » Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese engineer and businessman († 2010)