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Birthday March 12, 1915

• The temperature on March 12, 1915 was between 3.7 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
  • June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author († 2010)
• 1913 » Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India († 1984)
• 1915 » Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor († 1995)
• 1915 » Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist († 1991)
• 1917 » Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records († 1969)
• 1917 » Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter († 2009)