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Birthday July 18, 1914

• The temperature on July 18, 1914 was between 9.7 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • August 24 » World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
  • September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
  • September 17 » World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1914 » Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist († 2000)
• 1914 » Oscar Heisserer, French footballer († 2004)
• 1915 » Carequinha, Brazilian clown and actor († 2006)
• 1915 » Louis Le Bailly, British Royal Navy officer († 2010)
• 1915 » Roxana Cannon Arsht, American judge († 2003)