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Birthday December 28, 1915

• The temperature on December 28, 1915 was between 2.4 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 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 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
  • February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
  • March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
  • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Wil van Beveren, Dutch sprinter and journalist († 2003)
• 1913 » Lou Jacobi, Canadian-American actor († 2009)
• 1914 » Bidia Dandaron, Russian author and educator († 1974)
• 1914 » Pops Staples, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2000)
• 1917 » Ellis Clarke, Trinidadian politician, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago († 2010)
• 1919 » Emily Cheney Neville, American author († 1997)