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Birthday September 16, 1915

• The temperature on September 16, 1915 was between 10.9 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • February 19 » World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
  • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
  • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
  • 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.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
  • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1999)
• 1915 » Cy Walter, American pianist († 1968)
• 1916 » Frank Farrell, Australian rugby league player and policeman († 1985)
• 1916 » Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian cricketer, umpire, and politician († 1999)
• 1916 » M. S. Subbulakshmi, an Indian Carnatic vocalist († 2004)
• 1916 » Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis († 1978)